Thorn-apple - (Datura stramonium var. stramonium) - Species

Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium

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species	author	location	uploaded	taken
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:53 a.m.
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:53 a.m.
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:53 a.m.
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:53 a.m.
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:54 a.m.
Thorn-apple - Datura stramonium var. stramonium	dylan	Bristol	7 Sep 2023, 9:14 p.m.	7 Sep 2023, 11:54 a.m.

Species Description

Widespread and infrequent casual throughout the UK. Habitat includes: wasteland, tips, roadside verges etc. Other names include: Moon Flower, Hell's Bells, Devil's Trumpet, Devil's Cucumber, Devil's Snare, Devil's Weed, Tolguacha, Jamestown Weed, Stinkweed, Locoweed, Prickly-burr, False Castor Oil-plant.

Stace 4:

Datura stramonium L. (D. tatula L., D. inermis Juss. ex. Jacq.) - Thorn-apple.

Stems erect, to 1(1.5)m; leaves 5-18cm, elliptic-ovate; calyx 3-5cm, with teeth (3)5-10mm; corolla 5-10cm, white (purple in var. chalybaea W.D.J Koch. (var. tatula (L.) Torr.)); capsule (2.5)3.5-7cm including spines, with slender spines 2-15mm (spineless in var. inermis (Juss. ex Jacq.) Schinz & Thell.); (2n=24). Neophyte-naturalised; on tips an waste and cultivated ground, especially manured places, mostly casual, from several sources including birdseed, wool and soyabean; sporadic more or less throughout British Isles but rare in Scotland and Ireland; America.