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Datura stramonium

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Identification
Datura stramonium L. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Datura inoxia
  • Datura bertolonii
  • Datura pseudostramonium
  • Datura villosa
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  • Datura quercifolia
  • Datura tarapacana
  • Datura laevis
  • Datura tatula
  • Datura stramonium
Common name
  • mmσfra ahweneε (auctt.) (GHANA, AKAN-AKYEM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ndohar (JLT fide JMD) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • wasiwakwe (FRI; JMD) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • Jimson weed; Jamestown weed; apple of Peru; devil’s apple, devil’s trumpet; stramonium; thorn apple; green thorn apple., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • aŋlẽŋlẽ (FRI) blσfo ŋmet∫o = (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • stramoine., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • kidi ganian (JMD) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • pepeadiawuo (FRI; E&A) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • pepeadiawuo (FRI) (GHANA, ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for DATURA Stramonium Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
DATURA Stramonium Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 179;—Thunb. Prodr. 35, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 188; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 540; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 258; Bentl. & Trim. Med. Pl. t. 192; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 242.
Information
a robust erect annual; stem terete, branched; leaves ovate, more or less coarsely toothed or lobed, about 9 in. long, 3 1/2 in. wide, acuminate, unequal at the base, flaccid, slightly hairy when young; flowers solitary in the forks of the branches; pedicel short; calyx 1 1/2 in. long, persistent at the base; teeth 5, triangular; corolla 3–4 in. long, plicate in bud, tubular-funnel-shaped, white; lobes 5, spreading or recurved, acuminate; stamens 5, included; ovary pyramidal, 4-lobed; capsule about 2 in. long, erect, ovoid, thickly clothed with spines; seeds about 1/6 in. long, reniform. null
Range
Throughout the world, except in the colder and arctic regions, very common in South Europe; probably introduced into South Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Colesberg Div.; near the Orange River, Knobel!COAST REGION Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Thunberg!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenburg and Pretoria, Wilms, 1010! near Pretoria, Kirk, 31!

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