Datura ferox
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Fruit
03 May 2008
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Habit
23 Mar 2008
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Flower
23 Mar 2008
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Habit
09 Apr 2009
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Fruit
09 Apr 2009
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Habit
09 Apr 2009
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Datura ferox L. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Groot stinkblaar, Mak olieboom, Pietjielaporte, Stinkblaar, Stinkblaarwort, Stinkolieblaar, Stinkolieblaarboom, Blou stinkolie, Malpitte |
| English common name(s): | Large thorn apple, Apple of Peru, Dotter, Jimson weed, Prickly apple, (Purple) Stink weed, Long spined thorn apple |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Alien |
| Description: | White flowers, calyx up to 25 mm long, relatively few, large spines on fruit. Leaf margins coarsely and irregularly toothed. Erect, sometimes dichotomously branched annual herb, 30-120 cm. Leaves alternate, unpleasantly scented when crushed, ovate to rhombic-ovate, up to 16 x 12 cm, thinly textured, almost hairless to pubescent, particularly near the base; base often decurrent into the petiole; margin with almost lobe-sized triangular teeth. Flowers solitary in the forks of the branches or axillary. Calyx long and tube-like, up to 3.5 cm long, 5-angled with ovate to triangular-lanceolate unequal apical lobes, 2.5-7 mm long. Corolla white to pale yellowish, rarely pale blue, 4-7 cm long, slightly 5-lobed with narrow acuminate tips. Fruit erect, ovoid-ellipsoid, up to 8 x 6 cm (including spines), covered in robust unequal, narrowly conical spines, up to 2.5 cm long, purple-green to brownish when ripe, regularly dehiscent. 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 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
