Thornapple  ☠
Channel: zuditaka
Date: 21/04/2014

Walking round the countryside near my home, this afternoon, and came upon some thornapples of some sort. Are they Datura stramonium or D. ferox, or something? (I'm no botanical expert!) The ones around this way usually have short-lived whitish flowers that give off perfume at night time, as I recall.

The seed capsules look quite vicious, and would be even more prickly once dried out, I suppose. The spines remind me a little of the thorns on my Kalahari horned melons. I've always admired thornapples because of the pretty fragrant flowers.

NB

All parts of the plant, particularly seeds, are toxic to livestock and humans.

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