Jimsonweed
ಉಮ್ಮತ್ತಿसफेद धतूराஊமத்தம்பூ
Datura stramonium L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Solanaceae
Also called Jimson Weed, Thorn-Apple, Thornapple, Devil's snare, Moon flower
Formerly Datura bernhardii, Datura bertolonii, Datura cabanesii, Datura capensis, and 16 more
When it flowers
Flowers April to October in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, violetRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Cape leadwortFlowers November to March, when this does not
Cotton RosemallowFlowers November to March, when this does not
Crimson bottlebrushFlowers November to March, when this does not
Indian azaleaFlowers November to March, when this does not
LantanaFlowers November to March, when this does not
Mexican petuniaFlowers November to March, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- toloache, Estramonio, Chamico
- root
- azacapan-yxhua-tlazol-patli, hehe-caróocot, kakareshku
- Dutch
- Doornappel, doornappel
- myn
- mehen-x-toh-k'u
- Portuguese
- Figueira-do-inferno
- Italian
- Stramonio, Noce puzza
- Catalan
- Estramoni
- French
- Datura officinal, Stramoine, Stramoine commune
- German
- Gemeiner Stechapfel, Stechapfel, Weißer Stechapfel
- Czech
- durman obecný, durman obecný fialový, durman obecný pravý
- Danish
- Pigæble, Almindelig pigæble
- Greek
- Δατούρα η στραμώνιος
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Datura stramonium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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