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Datura metel

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Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain

Overview

Datura metel is a shrub-like annual or short-lived, shrubby perennial, commonly known in Europe as Indian thornapple, Hindu datura, or metel and in the United States as devil's trumpet or angel's trumpet. Datura metel is naturalised in all the warmer countries of the world. It is found notably in India, where it is known by the ancient, Sanskrit-derived, Hindi name dhatūra (धतूरा), from which the genus name Datura is derived.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Datura metel — CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (TA): கரு ஊமத்தை — CC BY-SA 4.0
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