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Datura metel L., Sp. Pl. 179 1753. (Syn: Brugmansia waymannii Paxton; Datura aegyptiaca Vis.; Datura alba Rumph. ex Nees; Datura alba F.Muell.; Datura alba var. africana Mattei; ….; Datura fastuosa L.; Datura fastuosa var. alba Bernh.; Datura fastuosa var. flaviflora O.E.Schulz ex O.C.Schmidt; Datura fastuosa var. glabra Bernh.; Datura fastuosa var. parviflora Nees; Datura fastuosa var. rubra Bernh.; Datura fastuosa var. tuberculata Bernh. ….; (=) Datura alba Nees; (=) Datura chlorantha Hook.; (=) Datura metel var. fastuosa (L.) Saff.);
. Texas to Colombia: Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá, Texas; Introduced into: Afghanistan, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New York, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, South European Russi, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO; .
Common name: Devil’s Trumpet, Horn of plenty; downy thorn apple • Hindi: Safed dhatura सफ़ैद धतूरा • Manipuri: Sagol hidak • Malayalam: Ummata • Tamil: ஊமத்தை Umattai, மாதுளம் Madulam • Kannada: ಕರಿಉಮ್ಮತ್ತಿ Kari ummatti
. As per efi thread : In both D. stramonium and D. metel the plants are glabrous, hairy in D. inoxia
The deciding difference between D. metel and D. stramonium is that mature fruit of D. metel is drooping, covered with short blunt tubercles barely exceeding 3 mm; in D. stramonium mature fruit is erect covered with long spines up to 5 mm long.
In addition the following may help. Plants of D. metel are generally taller less branched and erect often reaching 1.5 m and tend to have purplish stem, in D. stramonium plants are shorter, more branched and spreading, stems not purplish.
The leaves of D. stramonium are generally parted, whereas they are not parted in D. metel
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Luckily you can distinguish them from vegetative plants and flowers also.
1. Plants glabrescent; calyx 5-angled; corolla less than 12 cm long; leaves sinnuate-dentate, anthers less than 5 mm long (capsule erect, 4-valved, with stout up to 5 mm long prickles) … D. stramonium
1a. Plants glabrescent or hairy; calyx cylindrical; corolla more than 12 cm long; leaves entire or sinuate but not
dentate, anthers longer than 1 cm (capsule deflexed, irregularly dehiscent)… 2
2. Plants gladular-pubescent, not purple; calyx 8-10 cm long; corolla 15-18 cm long, anthers 10-17 mm long (capsules deflexed, covered with slender prickles, pubescent, irregularly dehiscent) …………………. D. inoxia
2a. Plants glabrescent, often purple; calyx 4-9 cm long; corolla 14-20 cm long; anthers 10-12 mm long (capsule deflexed, with short broad-based short prickles, irregularly dehiscent) …………… D. metel
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Solanaceae Fortnight:: Datura metel from Panipat -NS Feb 15/15 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (3)
Solanaceae Fortnight:: Datura metel from Kaithal -NS Feb 14/14 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (7)
This shrub with beautiful flowers and spinous fruits was recorded from near my native place in Kaithal, Haryana..
Datura metel with double corolla...
Solanaceae Fortnight :: Datura metel :: Nagpur:: PKA-FEB06/06: : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)
Came across this Plant at “Rameshwari, Nagpur“. Its a cultivated var. yes and nice
Solanaceae Fortnight :: Datura metel :: MNP, Exhibition 2013 :: ARKFEB-12/18 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5) Yes, I also think so.
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel L. Feb2015sk18/36 : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (3)
Again I skipped/missed a number. However, this is a wild sub-shrub, common in wasteplace, roadside. My earlier thread
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel from Delhi-GSFEB36/38 : 4 posts by 2 authors.
Datura metel L., Sp. Pl. 1: 179. 1753. Syn: Datura fastuosa Nees; Datura alba L.
Often grown in Delhi.
Different from D. inoxia in more or less glabrescent plants, shining stems, drooping or horizontal capsules, with short tubercles.
Photographed from Herbal Garden and Janak Puri in Delhi More Photographs from Delhi
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel”?? at Assam: PKA-FEB32/32 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
Could this be “Datura metel“?? This was photographed at ‘Guwahati, Assam”. yes
Solanaceae Fortnight :: ID Request – Datura :: MNP :: ARKFEB-13/19 : 10 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (4)
Requesting to please provide ID of the Datura plant captured at MNP in April 2014.
The fruits did not have pronounced spines. I think this is Datura metel L. Yes, I agree with … yes Thanks … for the ID… …, the KEY in FoC explains your query- “Plants glabrescent; capsules tuberculate or with stout-based prickles”, please also check description. Thank you … for the link very much….. Yes D. metel
Fwd: Datura metel ? from Jalgaon.. : 3 posts by 3 authors.
Hope u r fine and engaged in research… species level identification cannot be attained by flower pic, however tentatively this is D. innoxia
key to species
I think double flowered form of D. metel only. In D. inoxia the leaves are hairy and with greyish appearance.
Solanaceae Fortnight :: Datura metel :: Ganeshpuri :: DVFEB11/19 : 1 post by 1 author. 4 images.
Datura metel L.
at Ganeshpuri on January 12, 2014
Solanaceae Fortnight::Datura metel?? Feb-15 NSJ-07 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Datura metel ???. Pl confirm I think yes, nice photographs
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel from Coimbatore FEB 2015 BRS 05 : 2 posts by 2 authors. 2 correct images as above. First and 4th yes
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel Linnaeus ‘Blackcurrant Swirl’ from Assam KD 05, FEB ’15 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4)
Attached images are Datura metel Linnaeus ‘Blackcurrant Swirl’ found in wild state.. Yes … Nice photographs
Solanaceae Fortnight: Datura metel L. (purple, cultivated) Feb2015sk20/38 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)
This is cultivated species. My earlier thread. This one likely to be my final upload for this fortnight. I can’t remember if I am left with any more species. Seems to be Datura metel
Re: Datura from Rajnagar Tripura : 6 posts by 3 authors. 5 images.
Kindly identify this
Pl. Check at /species/m—z/s/solanaceae/datura . can somebody suggest where exactly can i find dDatura Metel In MNP Mumbai? : 3 posts by 2 authors.
can somebody suggest where exactly can i find Datura Metel In MNP Mumbai? at MNP they have a roapvatika, they keep on planting various medicinal and other plants, the exact location may keep on changing.
Some flowering plants from Kalesar National Park, Haryana – indiantreepix | Google Groups Datura metel cultivars;
Datura metel ‘Double Blackcurrant Swirl’;
Solanaceae Week: Datura metel from Delhi:
Datura metel Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 179. 1753. Syn: Datura fastuosa Nees; Datura alba L. Often grown in Delhi. Different from D. inoxia in more or less glabrescent plants, shining stems, drooping or horizontal capsules, with short tubercles. Photographed from Herbal Garden and Janak Puri in Delhi
Datura Fruit for ID : 040711 : AK-2:
Datura for ID : 040711 : AK-3: I guess Datura fastuosa, What would be the common name for this one? I believe this too is Datura metel L. D. fastuosa is a synonym. If you look at stem, the stem of D. metel is dark purple or blackish, so called kala-dhotra in marathi and D. fastuosa’s stem is greenish called just Dhotra in Marathi.           Flora of Haryana: Datura Stramonium from Near to Munak Karnal:
Datura Stramonium from Near to Munak Karnal pls validate Size of the prickles on fruit leads me to think that it may be Datura metel. I think u r right Sir I guess Datura fastuosa L. and its different from D. metel L. Since a very long time D. fastuosa L. considered as synonym of D. metel L. In both D. stramonium and D. metel the plants are glabrous, hairy in D. inoxia
The deciding difference between D. metel and D. stramonium is that mature fruit of D. metel is drooping, covered with short blunt tubercles barely exceeding 3 mm; in D. stramonium mature fruit is erect covered with long spines up to 5 mm long.
In addition the following may help. Plants of D. metel are generally taller less branched and erect often reaching 1.5 m and tend to have purplish stem, in D. stramonium plants are shorter, more branched and spreading, stems not purplish.
The leaves of D. stramonium are generally parted, whereas they are not parted in D. metel Yo can also take a look at link below from eFlora of China
Some More pics same place
Datura flower and fruit from Dombivli:
Sending photo of Datura flower and fruits seen in a marsh land at Dombivli. The fruits are offered to Lord Shiva. Place : Dombivli Yes … D metel yes common worldwide… even if garden are well tended and “OVERSTAFFED” ….
about 30 and then again 20 or 25 years ago found it in well tended garden edge with rocks as mulch … in waiting area of Pirates of Carribean Ride and then again in similar rock chips mulched flower bed of Swiss family Robinson Ride… remember it well since I took the pictures..many people started taking pics, and then next day (we were obsessed with the rides and had Seven day passes/tickets) they were gone and park rangers standing around told us “the plots were de- weeded last nite… ” even in snow bound NY I find in well tended plots of parking lots of fivestar designer apparel stores… go figure? how do these seeds find their way to such places is guess work at best… I guessed it must come in with the mulch… In India I find it in road sides, temple grounds, rubbish heaps with stones rocks that are not cleared away for years… do not know how seeds got there, bird poop? Any other ideas??? Anybody?                    Datura metel L. from CCSHAU Farms Hisar
Family: Solanaceae gr8 shots. U captured d sp. with all possible angles..it’s wonderful.
Datura for ID : Mumbai : 120912 : AK-2: Its Datura metel
Complete set of pictures.
One of common weed in the waste land and around the Air Port area of Coimbatore. Complete set of pictures Sir. I wl post the double corolla of Datura metel later on.
Hooghly Today : Datura metel Linnaeus (purple): Here it is … efi thread Thank you very much for the link, but there was another one, showing the double corolla. Yes by … efi thread I am very sorry for taking much of your time, it was … – efi thread. Thanks … and …: now I got to see all four submissions in the same sitting, by you , … and … wonderful pics
never seen so many seed pods as in … pics… We see at least on entry in the annual flower show at the Hort. Its medicinal though , most herbal garden grow them around the world… would love some seeds I have seen this DHUTURA only in front-yard of a few people, never in the wild. Certainly will take a note in my next find.
Hooghly Today : Datura metel Linnaeus: “Bengal Plants” describes three Datura species :-
Capsule opening irregularly near apex, usually pendent –
flowers more or less purple ……………. fastuosa
flowers white or cream-coloured ………. fastuosa var. alba
Capsule deeply 4-valved almost to the base, erect; flowers purple stramonium var. tatula
I think this species is Datura fastuosa var. alba = Datura metel Linnaeus. so does it mean one needs to wait till fruits develop and finally burst open to get an exact classification in case of DATURA? Luckily you can distinguish them from vegetative plants and flowers also.
1. Plants glabrescent; calyx 5-angled; corolla less than 12 cm long; leaves sinnuate-dentate, anthers less than 5 mm long (capsule erect, 4-valved, with stout up to 5 mm long prickles)…D. stramonium
1a. Plants glabrescent or hairy; calyx cylindrical; corolla more than 12 cm long; leaves entire or sinuate but not
dentate, anthers longer than 1 cm (capsule deflexed, irregularly dehiscent)… 2
2. Plants gladular-pubescent, not purple; calyx 8-10 cm long; corolla 15-18 cm long, anthers 10-17 mm long (capsules deflexed, covered with slender prickles, pubescent, irregularly dehiscent) ……… D. inoxia
2a. Plants glabrescent, often purple; calyx 4-9 cm long; corolla 14-20 cm long; anthers 10-12 mm long (capsule deflexed, with short broad-based short prickles, irregularly dehiscent) …… D. metel
Datura Fruit For ID : MNP,Mumbai : 060713 : AK-3 : Attachments (1). 3 posts by 2 authors. Datura metel I hope
Datura For ID : Double Purple : MNP,Mumbai : 250713 : AK-3 : Attachments (2). 3 posts by 2 authors. Datura metel. Yes cultivar of D. metel
Datura metel Linnaeus ‘Blackcurrant Swirl’ – from Kamrup district, Assam : Attachments (10). 3 posts by 3 authors. Attached images are Datura metel Linnaeus ‘Blackcurrant Swirl’.
Date :21.10.2013
Location: Kamrup district, Assam
Family : Solanaceae
Genus & species : Datura metel Linnaeus
Habitat: Grows wild on roadside
Habit : Shrub
Flower : Purple
Fruits : Not seen Excellent Set of Pics      Re: Datura : 5 posts by 5 authors. 5 images.
This Datura is from Rajnagar, Kumarghat, Tripura
Kindly identify
Datura metel yes. black/purple datura. D. metel
Datura metel : 1 post by 1 author. 4 images.
Presenting dissected flower of Datura metel with apparent 4 whorls. Cream colored variety, this was a fallen flower, I didn’t pluck fresh one.
In Surat city. Cultivated.
From left, calyx, first, outermost, smallest whorl, second whorl and innermost whorl, the longest one.
Innermost whorl looks like it is two, but in reality it is one, long span arranged spirally.
Arranged like a paper cone. And outer surface of second and innermost have outgrowths of same corolla tissue, that appendage held in between my fingers.
Inner surface.
Stamens on one side of this span of inner corolla.
This is second time I did this dissection. Outermost whorl is free, and easily gets removed, second and innermost I found stuck to each other, densely in narrower part of tube
patchy in flared part, making dissection delicate work.
There are more observation, I shall share soon. (Currently obsessed with this Genus). . From Agra, U.P.
DOP: 10 Oct 2019
. Datura Species for ID : Friends of the Trees Exhibition, Mumbai : 07JUN20 : AK-7 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Datura Species seen at the Friends of the Trees Exhibition in Feb, 20. Please check Datura metel ‘Blackcurrant Swirl’ Thanks a lot … A similar one earlier was also identified the same. . Datura metel from Salem Tamilnadu: 6 images.
Kindly confirm Yes, appears close to images at Datura metel . Datura stramonium L. (??) from Assam KD 01 June 2022: 3 images. Datura metel L.?? Pl. check https://efloraofindia.com/2011/02/24/datura/ Yes, appears close to images at Datura metel https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m—z/s/solanaceae/datura/datura-metel Luckily you can distinguish them from vegetative plants and flowers also.
1. Plants glabrescent; calyx 5-angled; corolla less than 12 cm long; leaves sinnuate-dentate, anthers less than 5 mm long (capsule erect, 4-valved, with stout up to 5 mm long prickles) … D. stramonium
1a. Plants glabrescent or hairy; calyx cylindrical; corolla more than 12 cm long; leaves entire or sinuate but not dentate, anthers longer than 1 cm (capsule deflexed, irregularly dehiscent)… 2
2. Plants gladular-pubescent, not purple; calyx 8-10 cm long; corolla 15-18 cm long, anthers 10-17 mm long (capsules deflexed, covered with slender prickles, pubescent, irregularly dehiscent) …….. D. inoxia
2a. Plants glabrescent, often purple; calyx 4-9 cm long; corolla 14-20 cm long; anthers 10-12 mm long (capsule deflexed, with short broad-based short prickles, irregularly dehiscent) …… D. metel
Re: Datura species from Vijayawada : 3 posts by 2 authors. 3 images.
This is growing in our college of pharmaceutical sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Kindly confirm the species.
Pl. check /species/m—z/s/solanaceae/datura
I think close to images at Datura inoxia Datura metal Linnaeus from Kamrup district (Metro), Assam : Attachments (6). 5 posts by 3 authors.
Hope attached images may be Datura metal Linnaeus. Please validate.
Date :18.10..2013
Location: Kamrup district (Metro)
Family : Solanaceae
Genus & species : Datura metal Linnaeus
Habitat: Grows wild on waste places
Habit : Shrub
Flower : White
Fruits : Not seen efi page on Datura metel Without fruits it is difficult to identify the correct species. Looks to be correct ID ! This is Datura metel L., as per images and details herein. . Datura innoxia Mill. :: Waghbil, Thane, Maharashtra :: Nov 16, 2008 · JUN23 DV48: 3 images. Could you please check Datura stramonium? I have surely mistaken this plant as D. innoxia.
This must be D. metal. To me, it does not look like D. stramonium.
Let us wait for validating comments. This is . Datura metel L. :: Guhagar, Maharashtra :: Mar 6, 2011 · JUN23 DV471: 3 images. Datura metel L.
Guhagar, Maharashtra :: Mar 6, 2011 · 9:13 AM IST :: about 10 m (30 ft) asl
Many thanks to Radha Veach for validating the ID at iNaturalist . Solanaceae: Datura metel L.: 2 high res. image. . Datura metel L.: 5 high res. images. Location: Vajra Hotel, Kathmandu
Date: 31 January 2024
Elevation: 1300 m.
Habit : Cultivated
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