Table 15.5.
Amount or concentration of total tropane alkaloids (TTA), hyoscyamine, and scopolamine content found in various species of datura plant (Alexander, 2008).
| Plant origin | Family | Part | Level found (FW or w/w or mg/kg DW) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTA | Hyoscyamine | Scopolamine | |||
| Datura ferox | Solanaceae | Seeds | 800–1250 | NA | NA |
| Leaves | 1000–4100 DW | NA | 50–3200DW | ||
| Stem | 200–2800 DW | NA | 200–1500 DW | ||
| D. stramonium var. tatula | Seeds | 1400–1600 FW | 700 DW | 500 DW | |
| Leaves | NA | 1000 DW | 600 DW | ||
| D. stramonium | Seeds | 1600–4200 w/w | 1900 DW | 100–900 DW | |
| Leaves | 1900–3600 w/w | 1550 DW | 150–6500 DW | ||
| D. inoxia | Seeds | 4100 FW | 1400–2900 DW | 700 DW | |
| Leaves | 170–5700 DW; 300 FW | 54 FW | 150–1300 DW; 250 FW | ||
| Stem | 3200 DW; 66 FW | 25 FW | 19 FW | ||
| D. stramonium var. stramonium | Seeds | NA | 700 DW | 1200 DW | |
| Leaves | 100–1800 FW | 700 DW | 650 DW | ||
| D. stramonium | Seeds | 1700 FW | 1400 DW | 1300 DW | |
| var. godronii | Leaves | NA | 400–450 DW | 550–600 DW | |
FW: Fresh weight; w/w: weight by weight; DW: dry weight; NA: not available.
UnlikeTable 15.4where the amount of total tropane alkaloids, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine varies from species to species, this table will explain the same with respect to the geographic distribution.