Datura
wrightii #
Herbs
or shrubs with alternate leaves. Flowers
perfect, regular or nearly so, terminal or axillary, solitary, umbellate, cymose
or paniculate. Calyx 5-parted or
–toothed. Corolla 5-lobed, rotate
to tubular, the lobes valvate or mostly plicate in the bud.
Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla –lobes and inserted on the tube.
Ovary entire, superior, mostly 2-celled; style 1; stigma terminal.
Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds
many.
The
family is notorious for a number of species that contain poisonous alkaloids,
such as atropine and nicotine. A
few furnish useful foods--the tomato, the potato and peppers.
Tobacco is also a member, and so is the garden favorite, Petunia. (Dale 191).
A family of over 3000 spp. in almost 100 genera, widely distributed. (Munz, Flora So. Calif. 829).
Upper Newport Bay species within the family:
Lycium
californicum
Lycopersicon
esculentum
Lycopersicon
hybrid
Nicotiana
clevelandii
Nicotiana glauca
Nicotiana
quadrivalvis
Solanum americanum