Datura
genus of poisonous plants, potentially psychoactive
Datura is a kind of plant. It is a genus of nine species of very poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae).[1]
| Datura | |
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| Datura wrightii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Subfamily: | Solanoideae |
| Tribe: | Datureae |
| Genus: | Datura L. |
| Type species | |
| Datura stramonium L.
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| Species | |
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9–14 (See text) | |
Sources
change- ↑ 1959 Avery, Amos Geer, Satina, Sophie and Rietsema, Jacob Blakeslee: the genus Datura, foreword and biographical sketch by Edmund W. Sinnott, pub. New York : Ronald Press Co.
