Citation: Regel, Gartenflora 8:193, t. 260 (1859).

Synonymy: D. metel sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 755 (1957), partly, non L.; D. meteloides sensu Everist, Poisonous plants of Australia 447 (1974), non DC. ex Dunal.

Common name: Hairy (or hoary) thornapple.

Description:
Bushy herb 0.7-1.2 m tall usually with a perennial rootstock, usually densely pubescent with retrorse non-glandular hairs mixed with a few erect glandular ones; leaves ovate to angularly ovate, 5-16 x 4-10 cm, almost entire, or shortly irregularly lobed, the lobes entire.

Flowers 14-20 cm long; corolla white, usually tinged pink or lavender on the limb; lobes 5, not separated by sinuses, the intervening tissue developed into 5 further short angular lobules; stigma usually above the level of the anthers (rarely equal or below).

Capsule deflexed, globose, 2.5-3.5, rarely only 1.5 cm diam. (excluding the spines), breaking irregularly; spines numerous, slender, sharp, all about equal in length, much less than half the length of the capsule; seeds yellow-brown, sometimes greyed, 5-5.8 mm long.

	Flowering branch, spreading corolla lobes, fruit and seed.
Image source: fig. 562F in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EA, NL, MU, SL.   W.Aust.; ?N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to Mexico, California and western Texas. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Occasionally grown as an ornamental but not widely recorded as a weed. Distrib: Usually found in small populations close to gardens (sometimes derelict) where originally cultivated, especially in the Mannum-Sedan area (MU region).

Taxonomic notes: A variable species sometimes approaching D. inoxia in characters of calyx, style length, fruiting calyx base and length of the capsule spines but always, distinguished because of the presence of non-glandular hairs and the secondary lobes of the corolla limb which are shorter than the acuminate main lobes with which they alternate.

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