Datura inoxia
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Datura inoxia Mill. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Harige stinkblaar, Malpit |
| English common name(s): | Downy thorn apple, Hairy thorn-apple, Indian apple, White thorn-apple, Sacred datura, Angel's trumpet, Downwards thornapple, Horn-of plenty, Desert thornapple |
| Synonym(s): | Datura innoxia Mill. Datura metel auct. - Afric., non L.-- misapplied name Datura meteloides Dunal |
| Status: | Alien |
| Description: | White flowers, calyx up to 100 mm long. Erect or sprawling annual or short-lived perennial herb or small shrub, up to c. 2 m. Branches often purple-tinged, softly pubescent and more or less glandular; all parts unpleasantly scented. Leaves alternate, more or less broadly ovate to elliptic, up to 17 x 9.5 cm, thinly textured, pubescent, particularly near the base below, on the veins and the margin; base often decurrent into the petiole; margin with coarse to almost lobe-sized triangular teeth. Flowers solitary in the forks of the branches, erect when fresh, later drooping. Calyx long and tube-like, up to 11.5 cm long, sometimes purplish and somewhat swollen towards the base, 5-angled with ovate to linear-triangular unequal apical lobes, up to 2.5 cm long. Corolla white or creamy, sometimes purple-tinged, 13-21 cm long, trumpet-shaped, somewhat 10-12-lobed with acuminate tips. Fruit nodding to pendulous, almost round to ovoid, up to 6 x 5.5 cm (including spines), covered with numerous slender spines, 8-12 mm long, purple-green to brownish when ripe, breaking up irregularly. All parts of the plant are poisonous. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 28 Oct 2020 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D Mark II |
| Lens aperture: | f/9.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/250 s |
| ISO speed: | 1000 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
