Datura ferox L.

Spice Fruit detail Fruit

Family: SOLANACEAE

Genus: Datura

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Asia

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

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

Characteristics: The most rare of the three Datura species found naturalized to the Balearic Islands. Can be told apart from Datura stramonium by its fruits that are covered with large spiny emergences, much larger than the other species and can reach up to three centimetres in length. A species originally from the Americas. Flowers in summer.