Datura metel
ஊமத்தைഉമ്മത്ത്ধুতরো
Datura metel L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Solanaceae
Formerly Brugmansia chlorantha, Brugmansia waymanii, Datura aegyptiaca, Datura bojeri, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.4 m to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–4 ft; Wikipedia 6–6 ft
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, white, yellow; Wikipedia cream, red, violet, white, yellow
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Simplified Chinese
- 喇叭花, 枫茄花, 枫茄子
- Chinese
- 曼陀羅, 曼陀罗叶, 曼陀罗子
- Tamil
- ஊமத்தை
- Bangla
- ধুতরো, ধুতুরা
- Malayalam
- ഉമ്മത്ത്, ഉമ്മം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Datura metel (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.