Datura metal

1. Habit : Large, erect herb. 
2. Root : Branched tap root system. 
3. Stem : Hollow, herbaceous stem with strong odour. 
4. Leaf : Simple, alternate, sinuate, exstipulate, glabrous with uni-costate reticulate venation. 
5. Inflorescence : Auxillary solitary cyme. 
6. Flower : Pedicellate, bracteate, bisexual, pentamerous, actinomorphic, dichlamydeous, complete and hypogynous. 
7. Calyx : Sepals 5, gamopetalous, persistent, valvate aestivation, odd sepal is posterior. 
8. Corolla : Petals 5, gamopetalous, twisted aestivation, tubular, funnel shaped with wide mouth and 5 to 10 lobed. 
9. Androecium : Stamens 5, epipetalous, alternate with petals and are inserted in the middle of the corolla tube. Anthers are basifixed, dithecous, introse, dehisce longitudinally. 
10. Gynoecium : Bicarpellary, syncarpous, tetralocular due to false septa, superior ovary with axile placentation. Style is simple, long and filiform. Stigma is dome shaped. 
11. Fruit : Spinescent capsule. 
12. Seed : Endospermous.