Editing Datura (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Genus|generic]] name ''Datura'' is taken from [[Hindi]] धतूरा ''{{transliteration|hi|dhatūra}}'' "thorn-apple",<ref>American Heritage Dictionary: ''datura''</ref> ultimately from [[Sanskrit]] धत्तूर ''{{IAST|dhattūra}}'' "white thorn-apple" (referring to ''[[Datura metel]]'' of Asia).<ref name="Monier-Williams-1899">{{MWSD}}</ref> In the [[Ayurveda|Ayurvedic]] text ''[[Sushruta Samhita]]'', different species of ''Datura'' are also referred to as ''{{IAST|kanaka}}'' and ''{{IAST|unmatta}}''.<ref name="Monier-Williams-1899"/> ''Dhatura'' is offered to [[Shiva]] in [[Hinduism]]. Record of this name in English dates back to 1662.<ref>the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' or [[OED]]</ref> [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] refers to one type in ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' as "apple-Peru". In Mexico, its common name is ''toloache''. The Mexican common name {{wikt-lang|es|toloache}} (also spelled {{lang|es|tolguacha}}) derives from the [[Nahuatl]] {{lang|nah|tolohuaxihuitl}}, meaning "the plant with the nodding head" (in reference to the nodding seed capsules of ''Datura'' species belonging to section ''Dutra'' of the genus).

The term "Jimsonweed" is said to come from the [[United States|American]] colony [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]]. In Jamestown datura was common,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Extension {{!}} Jimsonweed |url=https://extension.wvu.edu/lawn-gardening-pests/weeds/jimsonweed |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=extension.wvu.edu |language=en}}</ref> and was referred to as "Jamestown-Weed" by one [[Virginia|Virginian]], Robert Beverley.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-22 |title=Oddities & Curiosities: The Colonial Case of the Mysterious Jimson Weed |url=https://wydaily.com/latest/local/2021/10/22/oddities-curiosities-the-colonial-case-of-the-mysterious-jimson-weed/ |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=Williamsburg Yorktown Daily |language=en-US}}</ref> This then turned into the term "Jimsonweed".