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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  |
Germinate with some bottom heat. Some varieties have self-seeded 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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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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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. |
| Jenny | Jun 19, 2008 | I think this plant could easily become invasive. I have found it here along country roadside, quite distant from a garden which it escaped from. |
| Denise Sharpe | Oct 06, 2008 | It's taken two summers to produce flowers and taller foliage approx., 3ft plus. The original plants were only 18" high with smaller white flowers and more bushy foliage. I'm thrilled I now know their name but not pleased about the toxic etc., content of the flower. |
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