Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Diseases of Datura

Introduction
Botanical name: Datura metol, Datura stramonium

• Family : Solanaceae
• Useful parts: Leaves, flowers and seed
• The species of datura are commonly found Datura innoxia is originated from
• Mexico it is 90 to 120cm tall annual shrub resembling to Datura metol.
• The plant as dense smooth hair.
• Spined leaves and fruits also with smooth spines.
• The flowers are White to purple, black in colour and therefore the plant is called white and black datura.
Fungal diseases

• Wilt of datura : Sclerotium rolfsii
• Root & Foot rot : Corticium solani
• Leaf spot : Alternaria tennuissima
Viral diseases

• Distortion mosaic
• Rugose leaf curl
• Mosaic
• Little leaf of datura caused by phytoplasma