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Datura metel
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Datura metel is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae, belonging to the genus Datura. It is classified within the order Solanales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta. The species has the common names downy thorn-apple and prickly burr, as well as several Chinese names including 曼陀羅, 洋金花, 白花曼陀罗, and 白曼陀罗. Its taxonomic authority is cited as L.
The plant is native to Central, Southeast, and Southwest Mexico. It has been introduced to numerous regions, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Aruba, Assam, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, the Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, and Botswana. In China, it is found in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangdong, where it is considered invasive to Shanghai. The species is used as a medicinal plant.
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Vinony's link graph records 80 inbound references to Datura metel, and connects out to Pedanius Dioscorides, trichomes and Australia.
It sits within the topics Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Datura and Deliriants.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
prickly burr
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSolanales
- FamilySolanaceae
General: position near Datura metel L., but the higher density of hairs all
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,418
- With media
- 1,149
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Collections
- CICY, UJAT, ECOSUR, IBUNAM, UACH, GA
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Papua New Guinea, China, Thailand, India
Research
200 papers- Datura metel: A Review on Chemical Constituents, Traditional Uses and Pharmacological Activities.Current pharmaceutical design · 2021
- Efficacy of extracts from Datura Metel L. for Psoriasis: a meta-analysis of case series and single-arm studies.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023
- Datura metel L. leaf extract mediated sodium alginate polymer membrane for supercapacitor and food packaging applications.International journal of biological macromolecules · 2023
- Steroidal saponins from Datura metel.Steroids · 2017
- New steroids from the pericarps of Datura metel L.Natural product research · 2024
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Datura
- Image
- Datura metel Blanco1.34-cropped.jpg
- Has use
- medicinal plant
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- Commons category
- Datura metel
- taxon name
- Datura metel
- taxon rank
- species
- Commons gallery
- Datura metel
- taxon common name
- 曼陀罗根
- invasive to
- Shanghai
- taxon range
- Myanmar
- short name
- D. metel
- taxon author citation
- L.
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/93725bf2-6ada-47f9-bd5e-0e679e3d245e
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Encyclopedic overview
Datura metel is a shrub-like annual (zone 5–7) or short-lived, shrubby perennial (zone 8–10), commonly known in Europe as Indian thornapple, Hindu datura, or metel and in the United States as devil's trumpet or angel's trumpet. Datura metel is naturalised in all the warmer countries of the world. It is found notably in India, where it is known by the ancient, Sanskrit-derived, Hindi name dhatūra (धतूरा), from which the genus name Datura is derived.
The plant is cultivated worldwide, both as an ornamental and for its medicinal properties, the latter being due to its tropane alkaloid content. Like its hardier and smaller-flowered relative Datura stramonium, it is now of widespread occurrence, although showing a preference for warmer, humid climates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Datura metel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.