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| Common
name: Thornapple |
Botanical
name: Datura stramonium |
| Family: Solanaceae |
Maximum height: 1
metre |
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Where found:
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- Common in gardens, roadsides, disturbed
ground and pasture.
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| Description: |
- A stout branched summer annual.
- The large white, sometimes light purple, trumpet shaped flowers
sit in the centre of the leaf axle and open in the evening. Green
round capsules, about 3 - 5 centimetres long and 2 - 3 centimetres
wide, are covered in long spines. The fruit splits when it is
ripe revealing many large brown or black kidney shaped poisonous
seeds.
- Large dark green alternate oval leaves, up to 30 centimetres
long by 20 centimetres wide, irregular pointed teeth.
- The stem of the plant is thick, green and occasionally purple.
- All parts of the plant, especially the seeds, are poisonous.
Stock rarely graze it while it is fresh but it is still poisonous
in hay.
Control measures
- Do not allow plants to flower and seed. Pull out or use herbicide.
- Thornapple is relatively easy to control using Glyphosate (eg.Round-up).
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