Common name: Hairy Thornapple
Datura wrightii Regel APNI* 
Description: Herb, tomentose with retrorse, non-glandular hairs and some erect, glandular hairs.
Mature leaves ovate to angular-ovate, usually 5–16 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, margins entire or irregularly lobed.
Calyx 6–9 cm long; lobes 10–25 mm long, sometimes incompletely separated. Corolla 14–20 cm long, white, usually tinged with lavender towards margin; limb 5-lobed; lobes ending in slender point 5–13 mm long. Stamens shortly exserted. Stigma above anthers.
Capsule body ± globose, 2.5–3.5 cm long and wide, deflexed; spines numerous, sharp, all ± equal, usually 3–5 mm.
Flowering: summer–winter.
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon garden escape, south from Narromine. Native N Amer. & Mexico.
NSW subdivisions: *ST, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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