The thing with hyoscine, hyoscyamine and atropine on Wiki has annoyed me for ages. Hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, is a different substance than atropine/hyoscyamine. It's an epoxide of the latter. Atropine is however the same molecule as hyoscyamine, except hyoscyamine is only one of the optical isomers of atropine. So all hyoscyamine is atropine, but not all atropine is hyoscyamine. Scopolamine is, in turn, the epoxide of hyoscyamine (only the S isomer). I think it's somewhat confusing when there's different articles on the same substance, except one being an article on the racemate, and the other about the S isomer. Somebody who doesn't understand chemistry might think they're different substances, or at least it seems so to me.
Furthermore, at least one article (on
D. stramonium) says the following: "All parts of
Datura plants contain dangerous levels of the tropane alkaloids
atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine,..". Which when you think about it makes no sense, since all hyoscyamine is atropine, so it makes no sense to separate the two and list them as different alkaloids. I don't know, but it annoys me, however I haven't bothered to edit it to see how long it'll last. And it's still there through all this time. SMH. /pedantic rant
On your second point, however. I absolutely agree. I don't know if it's just my imagination, because I know what the plant is all about, but it does have that weird aura around it. I live close to a botanical garden, in which grows many species of Datura and other related Solanacae, and I often visit it to admire the plants. I don't know why. I'm not the spiritual type, but something about the plant attracts me. In a surreal way.