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this is growing on a plot holders plot but he could not remember what it is?
Can anyone help- not sure if it is supposed to be edible?

Where's the picture?  :o

Senior/Blonde moment ;D

That looks like Datura (Brugmansia) to me - certainly not edible, quite the opposite!

G x

What Georgie said.  Thorn apple, deadly poisonous, or at least wildly trippy.

Thanks, I think the summer was so indifferent I never remember seeing the trumpet flowers :D
I do not think the plotholder was planning on eating it ;D

I saw Datura in the wild this year and the leaves looked nothing like that, they were kind of spiky and the plant was really big and leafy. But there several varieties so....

Datura for sure.. Highly poisonous... Some do have the spiky leaves...

In Zimbabwe the plant used to take over a whole field in a few years after tobacco was grown and left fallow.. Very bad for cattle if they ate it but it smells so much nothing really does eat it!!

The native doctors would cut the fruit open and rub it on a ringworm sore... sounds daft as the fruit is poisonous if eaten..  but it worked!!