"Philippe Gautier" wrote in message
Hi, A friend receive these young plants (house plants?):

http://www.gogo.me.uk/temp/mystery_plant.html

Sorry the thumbnails are all screwed up but the actual images (when you
click on the thumbnail) look fine.
he was told it was some sort of ornemental cucurbitacae (squash,
pumpkin,...). But I really don't think so. At first it looked to me like
plants of the Solanacae family. Now, they start growing these big thorns
on the surface of the leaves. Possibly Datura? Any one has seen that
before?

Take a look at...
http://www.viridis.net/plants/datura_str.html or those on

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/R153693.HTM

And I agree the leaves do look more Datura like than what you were told they
were.
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Regards
Bob

Some photos of my plants at.....

Hope you like them.