Flowers in Israel: Jamestown Weed

Datura stramonium, Datura inermis, Datura tatula, Jamestown Weed, Common Thornapple, Jimson Weed, Jimsonweed, Mad Apple, Moonflower, Stinkwort,

Thornapple, Hebrew: דטורה זקופת-פרי, Arabic: داتورا صفراوية


Scientific name:		Datura stramonium L.
Synonym name:		Datura inermis Juss. ex Jacq., Datura tatula L.
Common name:		Jamestown Weed, Common Thornapple, Jimson Weed, Jimsonweed, Mad Apple, Moonflower, Stinkwort, Thornapple
Hebrew name:		דטורה זקופת-פרי
Arabic name:		داتورا صفراوية
Egypt:		:Datoura”, “Tatoura”
Plant Family:		Solanaceae, סולניים

_{Location: mouth of the upper Jordan river}


Life form:		Annual
Stems:		Up to 100–150 cm tall; erect, pale green stem, spreading branches
Leaves:		Alternate, entire, dentate or serrate
Flowers:		White, trumpet-shaped, 5-pointed corolla, hermaphrodite
Fruits / pods:		Four-celled, capsular fruit, usually covered with short spines
Flowering Period:		June, July, August, September, October
Habitat:		Cultivated areas
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes
Chorotype:		Plurireginalbor-trop
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: mouth of the upper Jordan river}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Datura, the genus name was given by Linnaeus in 1753; apparently from either the Hindu vernacular name Dhatura, or Tatorah, the Arabic name of the plant.

stramonium, spiky-fruited, a name used by Theophrastus for the thorn-apple (Datura stramonium).
tatula, Latin tata, diminutive tatula, father, papa.
“Jimsonweed “, is a corruption of “Jamestown Weed”, a name given to a related Datura that poisoned a number of soldiers in Jamestown in 1676.
The Hebrew name: דטורה, datura, transliteration from the scientific name.

The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
The standard author abbreviation Juss. is used to indicate Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748 – 1836), a French botanist.
The standard author abbreviation Jacq. is used to indicate Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727 – 1817), a Dutch scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.

_{Location: mouth of the upper Jordan river}