Datura innoxia, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 200

3. D. innoxia Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 5 (1768).

Plant 30-200 cm, pubescent. Leaves 5-16 x 3-5-11 cm, ovate, unequally truncate to cuneate at base, entire or sinuate. Calyx 60-95 mm; teeth 11-25 mm, unequal, linear-triangular, acute. Corolla 11-19 cm, tubular, white, sometimes with a violet tint. Capsule 5-5-6-5 cm in diameter, ovoid, nodding, dehiscing irregularly, with long, slender spines. Locally naturalized in the Mediterranean region. [Ga Hs It Lu Sa Si.] (Central America.) D. metel L. , Sp. Pl. 179 (1753), which is like 3 but has glabrous or subglabrous stem, leaves and calyx, a 10-lobed corolla and very short spines or tubercles on the capsule, is frequently cultivated for ornament, often as flore pleno with a white, yellow or purple corolla. It may be locally naturalized in the Mediterranean region but most reports of this species appear to refer to 3.