HYPP-A Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : datst

Scientific name: Datura stramonium L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Datura tatula L.

Classification: Solanaceae, dicotyledonous

Common name: thorn apple

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Stechapfel ; ES : estramonio ; FR : datura stramoine ; IT : stramonio comune ; PT : figueira-do-inferno ; EN : thorn apple ; NL : doornappel ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrowly lengthened(>10 times longer than wide).

- Leaves entire, elliptic to ovate, entire-margined.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 40-100 cm. Plant glabrescent with a noxious scent.

- Leaves large, ovate, strongly and inequally sinuate, toothed, teeth acuminate.

- Flowers shortly stalked, 6-10 cm long. Calyx light-green.

- Fruits : capsule as big as a walnut, erect, ovate, stout-thorned(spiny apple).

- Plant toxic and medicinal, used against asthma and neuralgia and as an antispasmodic drug.

- Biological type: Annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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