apple of Peru

Noun	1.	apple of Peru - coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry Synonyms: Nicandra physaloides, shoo fly
	2.	apple of Peru - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits Synonyms: common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed

genus Nicandra, herb, herbaceous plant, Nicandra, Nicandra physaloides, shoo fly