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Datura metel - Closed flower - Click to enlarge!

Closed flower; British Komenda, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Datura metel - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; British Komenda, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Datura metel - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; An Quảng Hữu, Trà Cú District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Datura metel - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; An Quảng Hữu, Trà Cú District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Datura metel - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; An Quảng Hữu, Trà Cú District, Trà Vinh, Vietnam; 12/2019 © Jörn Germer

Datura metel - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; British Komenda, Central Region, Ghana; 5/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1076
Date of entry: 28.05.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Angel's trumpet

German: Indischer Stechapfel

Mandarin: 洋金花 (yang jin hua)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2653)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2566)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2162)

      Order: Solanales (99)

        Family: Solanaceae (51)(family description)

          Genus: Datura (2)

            Epithet: metel L. (1)

metel => metel is derived from 'mathil', the Arabic name for the fruit of such plant

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

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