Datura innoxia

• Botanical Name : Datura innoxia Mill
• Common Name : Horn of Plenty, Downy Thorn Apple, Safed Dhaturo
• Plant Family : Solanaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 9, 11, 14, 17, 28
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Infocity, Basan

About Datura innoxia Plant :

• Habit : A perennial pubescent herb, with green or purplish hairy stems.
• Leaves : Ovate, acute or obtuse at apex truncate and unequal sides at base; margins entire or sinuate, pubescent on both sides.
• Inflorescence : Solitary
• Flower :
  • White, stout and pubescent pedicels.
  • Calyx pubescent outside, green tubular 5-toothed.
  • Corolla infundibuliform, white, glabrous outside, puberulous on the inside, 10-toothed.
  • Stamens included, filaments slender, glabrous.
  • Ovary clothed with soft white.
• Fruit : Covered with soft weak spines, irregularly dehiscent. Seeds numerous, pale brown, reniform, minutely foveolate.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : May-October
• Significance :
  • The seeds and leaves are narcotic and antispasmodic immediate relief comes after smoking a small-quantity of leaves in asthma.
  • The seeds are highly poisonous and have been in use for centuries for criminal purposes.
  • The juice of the plant is believed to be the cure for hydrophobia.