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I want to thank any and all that help me with this question. It's been driving me crazy all summer. I planted some seeds from my sister's neighbor for a plant that has big green leaves, huge white trumpet flowers and spiny seed pods. He called it a moon plant, but I've looked online and mine blooms all day and into the night.
The neighbors plant only grew a couple feet high and wide. Mine, on the other hand, stands 5.5 fee high, and is over 7 feet wide. It is incredible and I absolutely love the plant. But...I have no idea what it is, or whether or not it's even poisonous. I was cutting pods for next year and it has a light resin to it when scratched with a cloying, almost musky odor.
Attached are pics of the plant. Anyone have any idea?
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Do the blooms stand up or hang down?? If they stand up and have spiny pods they are datura. Datura is a very poisonous plant as are brugmansias. Brugs have hanging blooms and fuzzy pods.
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it's (they are) datura's and will make round see pods with throns on them
they also come in yellow and a purple and white they also have double and trible fower ones, the tribles are to die for.
* * * * I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- Plants: 1952 | From: Arkansas | Registered: Aug 2004
| Seeded: 64.233.137.34
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Do a search for datura trible flower and you'll find the doubles and tribles in different colors
* * * * I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- Plants: 1952 | From: Arkansas | Registered: Aug 2004
| Seeded: 64.233.137.34
Wow......... Those are awefully big pictures... Took a while for even me to get them to load...
***Great flowers and plants by the way, butttttttttt, any chance you can re~size your pictures for us a bit.... I can't see the whole flower/plant on one page.. Hard to look at...
P.S. Welcome to The Garden Helper's Forum... We're very glad you found us.. WE absolutely love Mysteries!!!
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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Wow...thanks! For the kind welcome and all of the information. I finally took a stem in to the local botanist at the University here and for those who guessed Datura Inoxia....yeah! You win *laughing*. Sorry about the size of the pics and thank you, Jiffymouse, for the resize. You guys are wonderful!
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Thank you , Jiffy! I was reading this thread yesterday and thought everyone was nuts cuz the pictures looked just fine to me, then got to the bottom and realized you had fixed them.
Yep, Datura, I have a friend at work who calls it "Trumpet Flower" and another friend who calls it "Angel's Trumpet" and Papito who called it "Moonflower Bush" so that is why the Latin names are So important.
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Actually they are confused with moon flowers which is in the morning glory flower. And they are not really a true angel trumpet; Those are tall and the leaves are more glossy. You have genus of the angel trumpet some of the bushes depending on where you live....southern states they bloom all year round or for most of the year. In the northern states like Wis. they grow from july until frost. The plant itself looks like a darker leafed egg plant. However the flowers look like easter lillies only larger and more fragrant if you dead head they branch if you leave the pods they are extremely sharp needled and will dry to be sharper. The seeds look just like a pepper (green) seed. They are one of our family's favorite. I planted one whole plot of nothing of these favorits and it was awesome. So enjoy.
* * * * Wendy Widerborg Plants: 9 | From: Friendship Wis | Registered: Jan 2005
| Seeded: 66.187.36.167
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