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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Solanaceae (ナス科) > Datura stramonium
Datura L. (チョウセンアサガオ)Youshu-chousen-asagao (ヨウシュチョウセンアサガオ, 洋種朝鮮朝顔), Jimson weed or Devil's snare(アメリカチョウセンアサガオ) Lifeform: erect, annual forb, becoming 1.5 m tall Distribution: widespread in tropical and temperate regions in the world exotic to Japan (introduced in ca. 1870) Habitat: roadsides, waste lands, abandoned pastures, etc.Body: hairless Flower: pale violet ↔ D. metel: white Fruit (capsule): oval ↔ D. metel: spherical Poisons: tropane alkaloids (sometimes used as medicine) |
Seed: black; dispersed by self, animal, wind and rain Chromosome number: 2n = 24 Synonyms:
Datura tatura L. f. stramonium (シロバナチョウセンアサガオ), white flower f. tatura (L.) Dabert. (ヨウシュチョウセンアサガオ, s.s.) |
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[1-3] in a waste land near Muroran Marine Station, Muroran City, on September 12 2016.