Datura
Datura , noun
[New Latin; compare Sanskrit dhattūra, Per. & Arabic tatūra, Tatūla.]
(Botany) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.
The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of capsule), white flowers and green stem, and Datura tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.