Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Fruiting body. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG & FJ Richardson, N of Balranald

Common Name

Downy Thornapple, Recurved Thornapple, Lily-weed

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 1m tall, usually with a perennial rootstock. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6-20cm long, 30-120mm wide, flat, sticky hairy, margins almost entire or somewhat toothed or lobed towards the base. Flowers white with green veins, tubular, with 5 lobes, appearing 10-lobed, solitary on short stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Fruiting body with many sharp spines. Noxious weed Vic.

Short description and photo and line drawing of fruiting body (Fig. 59b) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 586

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Datura~inoxia

Online fact sheet published by the South Australian Herbarium:  http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Datura_inoxia.htm