Thorn apple

Datura stramonium

  • Thorn apple
  • Thorn apple
  • Flower name
    Thorn apple
  • Scientific name
    Datura stramonium
  • Aliasjimson weed, ジムソン・ウィード, thorn apple, 白花洋種朝鮮朝顔
  • Place of originWorld temperate-tropical area
  • Place of floweringFields and footpaths
  • Flowering seasonJune, July, August

What is Thorn apple

Thorn apple or white flower species stramonium, scientific name:datra stramonim, is an annual wild grass of the solanaceae family, datura jenus inhabit tropical regions from the temperate regions of the world. This is one varieties of datura, and makes trumpet-shaped white flowers like morning glories bloom . The stem is green. Leaf edge is entire fringe or incision , and the both sides of the leaf is hairless. Flower color is white, and bloom in the summer. It is a toxic plant alkaloids in the whole plant. There are lilac or blue-colored flowered cultivars(scientific name: D. stramonium var. tatula).

Common name: Thorn apple, scientific name:Datra stramonim, aka:jimson weed,white flower species stramonium , origin: worldwide temperate-feral in tropical regions and environment: roadside, life: one, grass, height: 100-150 cm, branch stem color: green, stem branches: hairless, leaf color: green, leaf length: 20 cm margin: an irregular lack, and leaf table: soft hair Flower color: white, size: 8-10 cm, flowering period: June-August, fruit: capsule and ripens fruit, fruit shape: wide oval or spherical in orientation of the fruit and of many sharp spines on the outside: up, fruit color from green to black discoloration, seed size:0.3cm, seed color: black Note: poison note


  • Order
    Solanales
  • Family
    Solanaceae
  • Genus
    Datura
  • Species
    D. stramonium
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Funnel/trumpet shaped
  • Leaf type
    Oval
  • Edge of the leaf
    Toothed
  • Life typeannual wild grass.
  • Flower colors
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height100.0 ~ 150.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower8.0 ~ 10.0 cm

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