Datura stramonium

 

Family: SOLANACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Ummam

English name(s): Common thorn apple, Datura, Devil's apple, Jimson weed, Jamestown weed, Thorn Apple

Habit: Shrub

Flowering & Fruiting: July-September

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Scrub jungles and wastelands

Description: Subshrubs, 60-120 cm tall, branched, pubescent; the branches often purplish. Leaves alternate, simple, 8-17 x 4-13 cm, ovate or broadly so, sinuately dentate, minutely puberulose, cuneate; petiole 2-5 cm long. Flowers single or paired, axilary, white; Calyx 3.5-5.5 cm long, tubular, 5-dentate, puberulous, persistent; lobes 6-9 mm long, strongly reflexed in fruit, apiculate. Corolla 7-10 cm long, white or purplish suffused; limb up to 8 cm broad, shallowly 5-lobed, with the lobes, ± triangular-acuminate. Stamens 5; anthers ± 5 mm long, with the lobes narrow oblong, usually white. Capsule erect, 3-4 cm long, ovoid, spiny and densely pubescent, splitting by 4 valves; spines up to 5 mm long; seeds many, 3 mm long, reniform, reticulate-foveolate, and black.

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