Datura flower picture fruit effect

The petals of Datura are large and beautiful, but the whole plant is harmful, especially the seeds, which have greater toxic side effects. Datura flower has anesthetic effect, and there are certain records of it in "Bian Que's Heart Book" in the Song Dynasty and "Compendium of Materia Medica" by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty. It is also an ingredient in the "Ma Fei San" made by Hua Tuo, the famous doctor during the Three Kingdoms period, and the folk "Meng Han Yao". Its effect is to relax muscles and inhibit sebaceous gland metabolism, so ancient people named the anesthetic made from this flower "menghan medicine".

Although Datura is classified as a poisonous plant, its seeds, flowers, leaves and roots have medicinal value and have anesthetic, analgesic, antiasthmatic, cough and expectorant effects. But you must follow the doctor's instructions carefully, otherwise you will be poisoned.

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Chinese name: Mandragora

Other names: Drunken Fairy Peach, Mountain Eggplant, Dog Walnut Kernel, Drunken Heart Flower, Bede Taurus, Crazy Eggplant Flower, Magician's Flower

Other names: Datura stramonium

English names: Jimsonweed, Thorn-apple, Devil's trumpet, Devil's weed, Jamestown weed, Stinkweed, Locoweed, Datura, Moonflower

Biological classification: Angiosperms, Dicots

Green plant family: Nightshade (Solanaceae), Datura

Horticultural flower classification: annual standing herbaceous plant

Blooming season: Blooms in summer

Flowering period: June to August

Fruiting period: Capsules mature from July to October

Flower shape: The upper part of Corolla is lavender or milky white with a purple-blue halo, and the lower part is emerald green.

Fruit color: brown when ripe, seeds are gray-black.

Origin and distribution: Originated from Indonesia, widely distributed in warm temperate and tropical climates around the world, and distributed in various provinces and cities in my country.

Datura is divided into herbaceous plants and woody plants. The two pairs of Datura are from the same family and are green plants, generally shrubs or bushes. The flower tube of the woody datura is longer than that of the herbaceous datura, reaching 20 to 35 centimeters. The petals are loose and fragrant, and the fruit is wooden and does not crack. Because of the beautiful shape of its petals, which resemble a trumpet, it is named "Angel's Trumpet", meaning the trumpet of an angel.

The fruit of Datura is also very special in shape. Most of them are covered with small hard thorns, like a curled up hamster. When mature, the top is cracked, exposing the gray-black seeds inside, as if saying to us: "Don't touch me, I'm harmful!"

There are 16 species of green plants in the genus Datura, most of which are distributed in subtropical and subtropical regions. Commonly planted ones include:

Datura arborea, also known as large-flowered datura, is a shrub with a main stem up to 6 meters high. The flowers are white, loose and fragrant. Native to South America.

Hybrid Datura (Datura x candida), derived from Brugmansia aurea eczema Brugmansia versicolor, is a shrub with a main stem up to 6 meters high. Creamy white flowers, loose. Commonly grown in tropical climates

Datura metel, also known as white datura and wolfsbane, is an annual herb. The plant height is 0.5~2 meters. The Corolla is milky white, light purple or light yellow, often with double petals, and the inner Corolla has 5~10 lobes. Originated from Indonesia.

Datura sanguinea, a bush or shrub, reaches 10 meters in height. The beak and brim of the Corolla are bright red, fading to light yellow downwards and light green at the bottom. Originated from South America from Australia to Bolivia.