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Datura stramonium L. - Solanaceae - common thorn apple, jimsonweed, Gemeiner Stechapfel, Weißer Stechapfel
Annual herb, up to 150cm high, native to Mexico, naturalized and cultivated elsewhere; leaves broadly ovate, glabrescent, irregularly dentate-lobed; flower funnelform, corolla white or pale purple, greenish at base; fruit capsules erect, globose or ovoid, 3-4.5 × 2-4cm, with copious prickles. „Cultivated in gardens as a medicinal and decorative plant. The whole plant is toxic and is used medicinally as anaesthetic and for sedating and relieving muscular spasm. Seed oil can be used for soap making.“
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200020520
Sixty seven tropane alkaloids were identified in the organs of Datura stramonium L. by GC/MS. Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are by far the major tropane alkaloids.
[Nine new tropane alkaloids from Datura stramonium L. identified by GC/MS. El Bazaoui, A., Bellimam, M. A., Soulaymani, A., Fitoterapia, Vol.82(2), 2011, 193-197]
