Common Names
Common Names in English:
Devils Trumpet, Downy Thorn Apple, Horn of Plenty
Description
Family Solanaceae
Herbs, shrubs
, small trees
, or climbers
. Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs
simple
, branched, or stellate
, sometimes glandular
. Leaves alternate, solitary or paired
, simple or pinnately compound
, without stipules; leaf blade
entire
, dentate
, lobed
, or divided
. Inflorescences terminal
, overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary
, extra-axillary
, or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate
, racemose, paniculate
, clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate
. Flowers mostly bisexual
, usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united
. Stamens as many as corolla lobes
and alternate with them, inserted
within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers
dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores
. Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile
; ovules usually numerous
. Style
1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent
. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious
endosperm; embryo mostly curved
.
About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical
America, widespread in temperate
and tropical regions
; 20 genera (ten introduced
) and 101 species in China.
Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants
cultivated in ornamental
or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Genus Datura
Shrubs
or annual
or perennial
herbs; pubescence
of simple
sometimes glandular
hairs
. Leaves petiolate
; leaf blade
simple, entire
or sinuate-dentate. Inflorescences solitary flowers in leaf axils
or in branch
forks; peduncle
, bracts, and bracteoles absent. Flowers actinomorphic
, large. Pedicel often stout. Calyx long tubular
or cylindric
, often circumscissile near base
. Corolla elongated, funnelform
; lobes
sometimes cuspidate
. Anthers
mostly elongated, dehiscing longitudinally, included
. Ovary 2-4-locular. Fruit a dry capsule, 4-valved or irregularly dehiscent
, prickly or unarmed
, often subtended by remnants of persistent
calyx. Seeds numerous
, laterally compressed
; embryo curved
.
About 11 species: North and South America, three species in China."Datura". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 330. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June, July, August. • Flower Color: purple
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 4-6' tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 6-9" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
)
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
)
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
)
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
)
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
)
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
)
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
)
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Solanales
(
)
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
)
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Potato Family
- Subfamily:
Solanoideae
(
)
- Subfamily:
Solanoideae
(
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
- Order:
Solanales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Datura
There are approximately 150 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
D. cubensis · D. 'Eryngium Blue' (Devils Trumpet) · D. 'Lilac Le Fleur' (Common Thorn-Apple) · D. acaulis · D. aegyptiaca · D. affinis · D. alba · D. albido-flava · D. albidoflava · D. albiflora · D. arborea · D. arborea L. 'Chlorantha' · D. aurea · D. bernhardii · D. bernhardtii (Devils Trumpet) · D. bertolonii · D. bojeri · D. cabanesi · D. candida · D. capensis · D. carthaginensis · D. ceratocaula (Devils Trumpet) · D. chlorantha · D. cornigera · D. cornucopia · D. cubensis · D. de-noteri · D. discolor (Desert Thorn Apple) · D. dolichocarpa · D. dubia · D. erinacea · D. eximia · D. fastuosa 'Double Golden' (Devils Trumpet) · D. fastuosa var. flaviflora · D. fastuosa var. varia · D. ferocissima · D. floribunda · D. frutescens · D. fruticosa · D. gardneri · D. gigantea · D. guayaquilensis · D. humilis · D. hummatu · D. hybrida · D. inermis (Smoooth Thorn-Apple) · D. innoxa · D. innoxia (Angel's Trumpet) · D. innoxia Mill. var. innoxia Mill. · D. inoxia (Devils Trumpet) · D. inoxia 'Evening Fragrance' (Datura) · D. inoxia 'Missouri Marble' (Variegated Evening Trumpet) · D. inoxia inoxia · D. insignis · D. knightii · D. kymatocarpa (Datura) · D. laevis · D. lanosa · D. leichhardtia pruinosa · D. leichhardtii (Devils Trumpet) · D. leichhardtii pruinosa · D. leichhardtii subsp. pruinosa · D. longifolia · D. loricata · D. lurida · D. macrocaulis · D. maxima · D. metaloides (Jimsonweed) · D. metel 'Alba' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Atropurpurea' · D. metel 'Aurea' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Ballerina Purple' (Ballerina Purple Angel's Trumpet) · D. metel 'Ballerina Yellow' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Belle Blanche' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Black Currant Swirl' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Cherub' · D. metel 'Cornucopaea' (Devils Trumpet) · D. Metel 'D. Beej' · D. metel 'Double Cream' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Eryngium Blue' · D. metel 'Double Golden Queen' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Lavender' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double Purple' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Double White Lady' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Flore Pleno' · D. metel 'Frilled Double Purple' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'La Fleur Lilas' · D. metel 'Purple Petticoats' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel 'Triple Yellow' (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel var. dentata · D. metel var. fastuosa (Devils Trumpet) · D. metel var. flaviflora · D. metel var. muricata (Devils Trumpet) · D. microcarpa · D. mollis · D. muricata · D. nanakii · D. nigra · D. nilhummatu · D. parviflora
Bibliography
- Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.
- Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.
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Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 24, 2007.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 971302
