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1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

2. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

1. : a coarse herb (Nicandra physalodes) bearing pale blue flowers and a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

2. : jimsonweed

a plant, Nicandra physalodes, of the nightshade family, having large blue flowers.

[1775-85, Amer.]

apple of Peru,

coarse annual plant of the nightshade family, bearing solitary, pale-blue flowers.