Datura metel | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Datura metel, photographed by 雲一百香果 — fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205108351

Datura metel, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng — fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 126200979

Datura metel, photographed by P Jeganathan — fig. c P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144846334

Datura metel, photographed by Raja bandi — fig. d Raja bandi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105252979

Datura metel, photographed by Haneesh K M — fig. e Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141480670

Datura metel, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés — fig. g Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 88088138

Datura metel, photographed by 葉子 — fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 82306875

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Datura metel, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast	MXT
Mexico Southwest	MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 57 in flower of 80 examined

75%

83%

71%

80%

67%

43%

57%

100%

57%

69%

80%

Proportion of examined Datura metel in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Feb	5	6	83%	44% to 97%
Mar	5	7	71%	36% to 92%
Apr	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
May	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Jun	3	7	43%	16% to 75%
Jul	4	4	too few examined
Aug	4	7	57%	25% to 84%
Sep	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Oct	4	7	57%	25% to 84%
Nov	9	13	69%	42% to 87%
Dec	4	5	80%	38% to 96%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Datura metel observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 57 of 80 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Brugmansia waymanni Paxton
Datura alba Nees
Datura alba var. africanum Mattei
Datura bojeri Delile
Datura cornucopia hort.
Datura cornucopia J.R.Pitcher & Manda
Datura fastuosa L.
Datura fastuosa var. alba (Nees) C.B.Clarke
Datura hummatu Bernh.
Datura hummatu var. dubia Bernh.
Datura hummatu var. fastuosa (L.) Bernh.
Datura hummatu var. rubra Bernh.
Datura metel Mill.
Datura nilhummatu Dunal
Stramonium fastuosum (L.) Moench
Stramonium metel (L.) Moench

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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