Datura inoxia Miller

Spice Flower Fruit In the field

Family: SOLANACEAE

Genus: Datura

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Neotropical

Uses and properties: Psycotrophic plant.

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated species. Disturbed zones.

Characteristics: This Datura can be identified by its entire leaves with an asymmetric base. Flowers are white but larger than Datura stramonium, and its capsule is covered by small needle-like spiny emergences, which are much smaller and denser than the rest of the species of the genus. Can be found sporadically colonizing pathway borders, it is originally from the Americas. Flowers in the summer.