We found 2 definitions of apple of peru from 1 different sources.
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apple of peru - coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry | ||
shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides | ||
herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | ||
apple of peru - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | ||
jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium |