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Datura |
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| Common name |
angel's trumpet |
| Family |
solanaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual/tender perennial |
| Flowers |
light purple (summer) |
| Size |
18" |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
From seed  |
self-seeds sporadically in our garden
Flowers first year from seed sown indoors early.
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With little kids running around, I'm not too keen on growing daturas right now - their seeds, which come in really interesting spiny seedpods just made to attract kids' attention, are rather poisonous. But somehow, every year a single plant manages to emerge as a volunteer, always on our back yard island's hillside. Since it's out of the way, I usually allow the one plant to grow. It would be even better if I were ever there to witness the flowers in their fully open state - by the time I return from work, they have already closed, and it seems like they take weekends off just to spite me. Not sure what species of datura this is - I think I grew it from seed just labeled "single purple datura".
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back yard island About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Lynne | Feb 03, 2006 | Looks like Datura stramonium var. tatula. :)
Beautiful plant. |
| Janet DG | May 11, 2006 | FWIW, the entire plant is poisonous and hallucinogenic. You do have to ingest fairly large quantities though and apparently the taste is incredibly foul. I would be more worried about teenagers than toddlers - some of them are aware of its hallucinogenic properties and considerably less aware of its toxic properties. |
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