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  • COMMON NAME: Downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, Sacred datura.
  • ARABIC: داتورة، مرنحة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Datura innoxia P. Miller
  • SYNONYMS: Brugmansia waymanni, Datura guayaquilensis, Datura humilis, Datura inoxia, Datura laevis
  • FAMILY: SOLANACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
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://www.floraofqatar.com/datura_innoxia.htm
Annual plant, 50-120 cm high, pubescent, greyish-green. Stems erect, angular-grooved, branched. Leaves long-petiolate, 5-16 cm long, 2-10 cm wide, ovate, unequally truncate to cuneate at base, entire or sinuate; upper leaves often opposite. Flowers erect, up to 18 cm long. Calyx 4-9 cm long, teeth unequal, linear-triangular, avute. Corolla tubular, white, sometimes with a violet tint, nearly twice as long as calyx; limb with 5 cuspidate and secondary acute lobes. Capsule 4-6 cm in diameter, ovoid, nodding, dehiscing irregularly, with long, slender spines. Seeds reniform, brown, finely pitted. Flowering from March to November.
Plantations and waste places.
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