Datura (botany)

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Datura (botany)
Drawing of D. Inoxia
Taxonomical nomenclature
Kingdom	Plantae
Unranked	Angiosperms
Unranked	Eudicots
Unranked	Asterids
Order	Solanales
Family	Solanaceae
Genus	Datura
Species	sp.,
Common nomenclature
Common names	devil's trumpets, angel's trumpets, moonflowers, Jimsonweed, devil's weed, hell's bells, thorn-apple
Constituents
Active constituents	Tropane alkaloids

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 Naturalisation (biology)|naturalization]] throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe. Its distribution within the Americas and North Africa, however, is most likely restricted to the United States and Mexico and Southern Canada in North America, and Tunisia in Africa, where the highest species diversity occurs.

All species of Datura are poisonous, especially their seeds and flowers.

Species

• D. ceratocaula Jacq. – torna loco
• D. discolor Bernh. – desert thorn-apple
• D. ferox L. – long-spined thorn-apple
• D. inoxia Mill. – thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, moonflower, sacred datura, toloatzin, toloache
• D. leichhardtii F.Muell. ex Benth. (syn. D. pruinosa) – Leichhardt's datura
• D. metel L. – devil's trumpet
• D. quercifolia Kunth – oak-leaf thorn-apple
• D. stramonium L. (syn. D. inermis) – jimsonweed, thorn-apple
• D. wrightii Regel – sacred datura, sacred thorn-apple