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Devil's Trumpets
Datura
Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are commonly known as daturas, but also known as devil's trumpets, not to be confused with angel's trumpets, its closely related genus Brugmansia. They are also sometimes called moonflowers, jimsonweed, devil's weed, hell's bells, thorn-apple, and many more. Its precise and natural distribution is uncertain, owing to its extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions...
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Sacred Datura
speciesDatura wrightii
jimsonweed
speciesDatura stramonium
downy thorn-apple
speciesDatura innoxia
desert thorn-apple
speciesDatura discolor
metel devil's trumpet
speciesDatura metel
long-spined thorn-apple
speciesDatura ferox
Oak-leaved Thorn-apple
speciesDatura quercifolia
Latin thorn-apple
speciesDatura ceratocaula
Leichhardt's Datura
speciesDatura leichhardtii
sand thorn-apple
speciesDatura arenicola
Datura lanosa
speciesDatura lanosa
Pruinose Thorn-apple
speciesDatura pruinosa
Datura kymatocarpa
speciesDatura kymatocarpa
Datura reburra
speciesDatura reburra
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.709
Tractado de las Drogas y Medicinas de las Indias Orientales
Cristóvão da Costa · 1578 · p.116
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.722
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.968
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.478
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.106
Ten Books of Exotic Things
Carolus Clusius · 1605 · p.309
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.365
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.157
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.186
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.261
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 1 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1687 · p.15
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48943.