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Definition of D stramonium

D stramonium
Datura Da*tu"ra, n. [NL.; cf. Skr. dhatt?ra, Per. & Ar. tat?ra, Tat?la.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of capsule), white flowers and green stem, and D. tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.

Meaning of D stramonium from wikipedia

- Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe...
- Datura stramonium L. Datura wrightii Regel Of the above, D. leichhardtii is close enough to D. pruinosa to merit demotion to a subspecies and likewise D. ferox...
- usually pinkish-violet rather than white. D. innoxia differs from D. stramonium, D. metel and D. fastuosa in having about 7 to 10 secondary veins on either...
- flowers and spiny seed capsules, that of D. stramonium being held erect and dehisceing by four valves and that of D. innoxia nodding downward and breaking...
- Atropa belladonna (the deadly nightshade), Datura innoxia, D. wrightii, D. metel, and D. stramonium. Other sources include members of the genera Brugmansia...
- D. quercifolia ****h – oak-leaf thorn-apple D. stramonium L. (syn. D. inermis) – jimsonweed, thorn-apple D. wrightii Regel – sacred datura, sacred thorn-apple...
- sometimes "western Jimson weed" because of its resemblance to Datura stramonium due to both species having toothed leaves. Anglophone settlers in California...
- occurs as minor alkaloid in roots of many Datura species such as Datura stramonium and Datura innoxia. It is the last step before cocaine is biosynthesized...
- (deadly nightshade), various Brugmansia species (Angel's Trumpets), Datura stramonium (Jimson weed), Hyoscyamus niger (henbane), and Mandragora officinarum...
- alkaloid content. Like its hardier and smaller-flowered relative Datura stramonium, it is now of widespread occurrence, although showing a preference for...