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Datura innoxia Mill.

Campana blanca, Campana del pasto, Chamisco blanco, Chamisco doble (ES)

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Summary

Datura innoxia, known as pricklyburr, recurved thorn-apple, downy thorn-apple, Indian-apple, lovache, moonflower, nacazcul, toloatzin, toloaxihuitl, tolguache or toloache, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is more rarely called sacred datura, a common name which is applied more often to the closely related Datura wrightii. It is native to the Southwestern United States, Central and South America, and introduced in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The scientific name is often cited as D. innoxia. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Datura innoxia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Datura

Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae). They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple. Other English common names include moonflower, devil's weed and hell's bells. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Datura”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Solanaceae
Described by
Mill.
Native to
Texas, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +4
Wild records
328 in range· 173 open

At a glance

Warmest month
31°C
Jun, mean day; nights 19 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
554mm/yr
6 wet months · peak Jul 104 mm (CHELSA)
Light
26–46DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (June to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 554 mm a year, wettest July at 104 mm, driest March at 9 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 46 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Datura guayaquilensis Kunth; Datura innoxia var. innoxia; Datura inoxia subsp. inoxia; Datura metel Griseb., 1861; Datura metel Sessé & Moc. and 5 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (June to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (428 mm of 554 mm) falls in June to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.9 °C against a yearly mean of 20.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 554 mm a year, wettest July at 104 mm, driest March at 9 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

554 mm a year at the habitat, 428 mm of it June to October. Wettest month July at 104 mm, driest March at 9 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 385 mm to 1116 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 46 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 46 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.3 °C, the absolute minimum -4.7 °C, about 1 frost night a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 7.1 °C in January (across the envelope cells 3.8 °C to 17.7 °C), warmest day 30.5 °C in June (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 50 to 59% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 21 °C in Jan to 31 °C in Jun; mean night from 7 °C in Jan to 20 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 554 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 267 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -4.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost35.0° 99th-percentile day (undated)-4.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 26–46RH 50–59 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 267 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C21 / 16–2723 / 18–2826 / 22–3028 / 26–3330 / 27–3431 / 25–3429 / 24–3429 / 24–3428 / 23–3226 / 22–3023 / 20–2821 / 16–27
Night °C7 / 4–188 / 5–1811 / 7–1914 / 10–2117 / 13–2319 / 14–2420 / 14–2419 / 14–2518 / 13–2415 / 11–2211 / 7–208 / 4–18
Rain mm19 / 12–5012 / 6–519 / 4–6418 / 5–5941 / 14–9894 / 38–184104 / 52–20196 / 50–21786 / 57–21148 / 29–11615 / 8–6912 / 6–50
DLI28 / 19–3234 / 24–3842 / 29–4546 / 35–4946 / 37–5142 / 38–4942 / 37–4541 / 36–4335 / 32–3833 / 26–3629 / 20–3426 / 18–31
RH %54 / 48–5952 / 46–5850 / 42–5851 / 41–5854 / 42–6158 / 47–6458 / 51–6558 / 53–6559 / 53–6758 / 50–6556 / 48–6255 / 48–60

Each figure is the median across the 267 grid cells holding the 318 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1363:1553 (21.825, -102.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -4.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 267 distinct grid cells holding the 318 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1363:1553 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 22.00_-102.500, lapse-corrected -223 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1859 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTexas, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast· introduced: Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Baleares, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Central European Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira, Benin, Burkina, Gambia, The, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Zaïre, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, Kirgizistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Xinjiang, Korea, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Myanmar, Vietnam, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, New Caledonia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, New Mexico, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, District of Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Aruba, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Windward Is., Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Galápagos, Peru, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Chile North, Paraguay, Uruguay
Kew's description“annual or perennial” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker20.592, -100.392 · in the densest population, 260 records (79% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 328 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 173 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 438 km away. 1341 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 328 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Rabah Al-Shammary, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) saltyhiker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Gijs Romijn, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Datura innoxia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Extraction optimization of medicinally important metabolites from Datura innoxia Mill.: an in vitro biological and phytochemical investigation
Humaira Fatima, Komal Khan, Muhammad Zia, Tofeeq Ur-Rehman (2015) · BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The Relationship between Growth Rate, Differentiation and Alkaloid Accumulation in Cell Cultures
Keith Lindsey, M. M. Yeoman (1983) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Poly(gamma-glutamylcysteinyl)glycine: its role in cadmium resistance in plant cells.
Piper Jackson, Clifford J. Ünkefer, J A Doolen, Kevin Watt (1987) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Chemical Modification and Metal Binding Studies of Datura innoxia
Lawrence R. Drake, Shan Lin, Gary D. Rayson, Paul J. Jackson (1995) · Environmental Science & Technology
Poly(γ-glutamylcysteinyl)glycine Synthesis in Datura innoxia and Binding with Cadmium
Emmanuel Delhaize, Paul J. Jackson, Leah D. Lujan, Nigel J. Robinson (1989) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
The role of nuclear fusion in pollen embryogenesis of Datura innoxia Mill.
N. Sunderland, G. B. Collins, Jim M. Dunwell (1974) · Planta
Assessment of Wool Waste and Hair Waste as Soil Amendment and Nutrient Source
Valtcho D. Zheljazkov (2005) · Journal of Environmental Quality
Synthesis of isotopically labelled 3-amino-2-phenylpropionic acid and its role as a precursor in the biosynthesis of tenellin and tropic acid
Russell J. Cox, David O’Hagan (1991) · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1
Effect of citric acid and EDTA on chromium and nickel uptake and translocation by Datura innoxia
Liliane Jean, François Bordas, Cécile Gautier-Moussard, Philippe Vernay (2007) · Environmental Pollution
Green Roots: Photosynthesis and Photoautotrophy in an Underground Plant Organ
Hector E. Flores, Yr. Dai, Juan Cuello, Ignacio E. Maldonado‐Mendoza (1993) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Datura 3 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 174 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.