Datura metel L.

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Photo: Maureen Silva-Jones
5, Hervey Close, Belvedere, Harare

Synonyms:	Datura alba Rumph. Datura fastuosa L.
Common names:	Horn-of-plenty (English)
Description:	Herb or shrub to 2 m, sometimes tinged purple or violet. Stems glabrous or sparsely pubescent, not viscid. Leaves petiolate; lamina 4-24 cm, ovate, entire to somewhat lobed; base often markedly asymmetric. Flowers solitary, rarely paid, erect at first, drooping later. Corolla 12-19 cm, showy, white, yellow, purple or violet, trumpet-shaped, single, double or even triple. Fruit somewhat upright to nodding, irregularly breaking up when ripe, covered with stout conical spines or tubercles. Seeds whitish to brown.
Notes:	There were only 2 Zimbabwean specimens of this species in SRGH on 23 April 2008; details have been added to this site. Both records are of cultivated plants; there are no records yet of this species becoming naturalised.
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Worldwide distribution:	Native to America. Cultivated for ornament or medicinal pirposes and widely naturalised in the tropics and subtropics.
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Image last updated:	Sunday 24 August 2008
Literature:	Gonçalves, A.E. (2005). Solanaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(4) Pages 31 - 35. (Includes a picture). Maroyi, A. (2006). Preliminary checklist of introduced and naturalized plants in Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(2) Page 243.

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Flora of Mozambique: Datura metel
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