What are the flower meanings and symbolism of the datura

Datura is a wild, erect, woody annual herbaceous plant. Daturas of different colors have different flower meanings. Let's take a look at the flower meanings of the datura together!

Legend has it that long, long ago, the edges of the city were covered with vast stretches of equinox flowers, that is, manjusaka. Guarding the equinox flowers were two spirits: a flower spirit named Manju and a leaf spirit named Saka. They had guarded the equinox flowers for thousands of years, yet had never met, because when the flowers bloom you cannot see the leaves, and when the leaves are present you cannot see the flowers. Flower and leaf never see each other, forever missing each other life after life.

They missed each other madly and were tormented by this pain. Finally one day, they decided to defy the god's rule and secretly meet once. That year, the manjusaka's brilliantly red flowers, set off by the eye-catching green, bloomed with exceptional, bewitching beauty. The god's punishment came down, and this too was expected.

Manju and Saka were cast into reincarnation and cursed never to be together, suffering tribulations in the human world life after life. From then on, manjusaka was also called the equinox flower, meaning a flower that blooms in the heavenly kingdom. Its shape is like palms praying toward heaven, but it has never appeared in the city again. This flower blooms on the road to the underworld. Each time Manju and Saka reincarnate, when they smell the fragrance of the equinox flower on the road to the underworld, they remember their former selves, then vow never to separate, and in the next life fall once more into the cursed cycle of reincarnation.

The main components of datura flowers are hyoscyamine, scopolamine and a small amount of atropine, and the main component producing the anesthetic effect is scopolamine. Because its main effect is to relax muscles and suppress sweat gland secretion, the ancients' naming of this drug as "knockout powder" was extremely apt.

There is a legend: the great desert is a punishment imposed by God because of human desire, and all life in the great desert is governed solely by the water god at its center. Until the water god fell in love with a woman leading her people to find water. God was enraged and wanted to destroy the water god's soul. Mandala, the flower god of the desert, at the cost of entering the human world's cycle of reincarnation together with him, begged God for mercy. God, moved by her devotion, only banished the water god from heaven. Since then, there has been no water in the desert, and Mandala too became a cursed flower, with deadly poison within.

The Buddhist scriptures say that when Shakyamuni attained Buddhahood, the earth shook, all the gods praised in unison, and the many sufferings of the three realms of hell, hungry ghosts and animals ceased at once. Heavenly drums sounded together, emitting wondrous music, and the sky rained mandala flowers, manjusaka flowers, golden flowers, silver flowers, lapis lazuli flowers, jewel flowers, seven-treasure lotus flowers and so on. At this point, Shakyamuni had attained the fruit of the Bodhi path, and so began to teach and take disciples, transmitting the true meaning of the universe that he had realized.

Legend says that in the Buddha realm of the Western Pure Land, celestial music often sounds in the air, and the ground is adorned with gold. There is an extremely fragrant and beautiful flower called the mandala flower, which falls from the sky without pause day or night, strewing the ground with color.

Datura flower meanings

Purple datura - terror.

Blue datura - false affection, deceptive love.

Red datura - manjusaka, also known as the equinox flower. It is generally considered the flower that guides souls by the Sanzu River. Its fragrance is said to be magical, able to awaken memories from one's former life.

Pink datura - comfort.

Green datura - endless hope.

Golden datura - respect and love, a born lucky one, with ceaseless happiness.

White datura - the love flower. If swallowed with alcohol, it will make people laugh and has an anesthetic effect. It is a flower that blooms in heaven, white and soft; those who see this flower have their evil removed.

Black datura - unpredictable darkness, death and a love of wandering displacement. Uninterrupted love and revenge, the lovelessness and enmity of the mortal world, a wounded and resilient lacerated heart, the road of no return in life.

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