- Family : SOLANACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Solanaceae
- Species : Datura metel
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Datura metel L.
- Common name : Angel's Trumpet, Thorn Apple
- Vernacular name : Dhatturah, Dhusturah (San.); Dhattura, Kala Dhattura (Hin.); Daturi, Ummati (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 508, CJS 11968
- Key identification features : A herb with large, simple and alternate leaves. Flowers are showy, 7 cm across, trumpet-shaped with 5 teeth-like projections. Fruit is a many-seeded capsule.
- Habit : Shrub
- Native : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Asia
- Comments : A common weed of wasteland. The alkaloid scopalamine is present in the plant. Seeds poisionus. Flowers and stem pinkish
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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