FarmerCharlie: My Grandmother had them in her yard!! I remember them from when I was little.. The blooms would be this long, skinny looking thing but then WOW, they would burst open and be so beautiful!! And the smell!! YUMMY!! Lol I have just about every color they come in but my yellow and peach colors came from my Grandmothers plants, I took cuttings a long time ago and *knock on wood* I still have them come back every spring!
FullCircleTx: That is terrible!! I was told by a doctor there are extreme cases of such things happening to people, possibly similar to what your mother went through and that excessive handling of any toxic plant can be very dangerous if in fact the person has a rare and/or often unknown allergic reaction to the plants... My Momma, for instance, is highly allergic to tobacco plants! My parents farmed (mainly cattle and tobacco) and if my Momma so much as lighly grazed a leaf of a tob. plant she would swell up something awful and have a rash from head to toe!! Lucky lady got out of having to work in it!! Lol... But every person is different and some have harsher reactions to certain things than others... The fact still remains that AT's can trouble...