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  • COMMON NAME: Egyptian henbane
  • ARABIC: بنج، مرنحة، سكران
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Hyoscyamus muticus L.
  • SYNONYMS: Scopolia mutica (L.) Dunal
  • FAMILY: SOLANACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:815931-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Used as a sedative to treat insanity, epilepsy, insomnia, toothache, and to relieve pain in snake or scorpion bites, as well as treatment for a host of other ailments, extracts of these plants are still used today, for instance, to dilate pupils and to speed up a slow heartbeat.

Erect, annual or biennial, 30-90 cm high. much branched from the neck fleshy. Leaves fleshy, ovate to rhombic, acute, toothed-lobes, rarely entire; the lower petioled; the upper sessile. Flowers in bracts spikes, along one side of stem, mostly with short pedicels, calyx tubular, 1-2.5 cm long; teeth triangular, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2-4 cm long, white or pink-tinged, eith distinct mauve spots; linb irregularly split. Stamens and style exserted. Fruit a capsule. Seeds reniform. 

Flowering from December to May.
Sandy soil, hillsides and gravel plains.
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