Name: deadly poisonous plant with hairy flowers.
Synonym: Lycioplesium pubiflorum; Latua venenosa.
Spanish: árbol de los brujos.
English: Tree of the sorcerers.
Genus: monotypic.
Region: coastal mountains of southern Chile.
Botany: shrub or small tree to 10m high; flowers attractive, magenta-to-red, hummingbird-pollinated; fruit yellow, tomato-like.
Content: tropane alkaloid.
Use: extremely poisonous, hallucinogenic, deliriant in smaller doses; trance states by Chilean machi, shamans; ornamental; fish poisoning.