<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387807891640146143</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:28:25.044-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Solanaceae (Datura metal)</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1387807891640146143/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>sasikala</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14086269632797154805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_9i-RzXOIWzM/SE4gQH45tYI/AAAAAAAAAL4/UYE2lrqgN1k/S220/char_diana.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1387807891640146143.post-334469334724969067</id><published>2008-12-15T05:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T05:39:19.511-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Datura metal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9i-RzXOIWzM/SUZd9KxAT8I/AAAAAAAAAUk/6R-zjrliajc/s1600-h/dm.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280010918581784514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 312px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9i-RzXOIWzM/SUZd9KxAT8I/AAAAAAAAAUk/6R-zjrliajc/s320/dm.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Habit&lt;/strong&gt; : Large, erect herb.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Root&lt;/strong&gt; : Branched tap root system.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stem&lt;/strong&gt; : Hollow, herbaceous stem with strong odour.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leaf &lt;/strong&gt;: Simple, alternate, sinuate, exstipulate, glabrous with uni-costate reticulate venation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inflorescence&lt;/strong&gt; : Auxillary &lt;em&gt;solitary cyme&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flower&lt;/strong&gt; : Pedicellate, bracteate, bisexual, pentamerous, actinomorphic, dichlamydeous, complete and hypogynous.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Calyx &lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Sepals 5, gamopetalous&lt;/em&gt;, persistent, &lt;em&gt;valvate aestivation&lt;/em&gt;, odd sepal is posterior.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corolla&lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;em&gt;Petals 5, gamopetalous, twisted aestivation&lt;/em&gt;, tubular, funnel shaped with wide mouth and 5 to 10 lobed.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Androecium &lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Stamens 5, epipetalous&lt;/em&gt;, alternate with petals and are inserted in the middle of the corolla tube. Anthers are &lt;em&gt;basifixed, dithecous, introse, dehisce&lt;/em&gt; longitudinally.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gynoecium&lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;em&gt;Bicarpellary, syncarpous, tetralocular&lt;/em&gt; due to false septa, &lt;em&gt;superior ovary&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;axile placentation&lt;/em&gt;. Style is simple, long and filiform. Stigma is &lt;em&gt;dome&lt;/em&gt; shaped.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fruit&lt;/strong&gt; : Spinescent capsule.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seed &lt;/strong&gt;: Endospermous.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1387807891640146143-334469334724969067?l=solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com/feeds/334469334724969067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com/2008/12/datura-metal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1387807891640146143/posts/default/334469334724969067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1387807891640146143/posts/default/334469334724969067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://solanaceaedaturametal.blogspot.com/2008/12/datura-metal.html' title='Datura metal'/><author><name>sasikala</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14086269632797154805</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_9i-RzXOIWzM/SE4gQH45tYI/AAAAAAAAAL4/UYE2lrqgN1k/S220/char_diana.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9i-RzXOIWzM/SUZd9KxAT8I/AAAAAAAAAUk/6R-zjrliajc/s72-c/dm.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
