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I have a couple of plants that came up in the middle of a flowerbed I planted and I haven't been able to find them in any plant glossary. They have enormous leaves that are a dark green. One has matured and has flowers that look like small white trumpets. The plant is about as big as a bushel basket. it has large stalks about 1/2 in. in diameter. The leaves are about 4" long and 2" wide and it's mostly leaves and not too many flowers.
Does anyone have any idea what this guy is? It may be something that used to be popular and isn't anymore. I must have stirred it up when I spaded the ground for the bed.
I'll add a picture later if we can't figure it out. I hope it's not a Beanstalk as in Jack and the Beanstalk.
Gene
[ September 13, 2005, 01:29 AM: Message edited by: Jiffymouse ]
Plants: 31 | From: SAN JOSE, CA. | Registered: Nov 2002
| Seeded: 152.163.252.99
If so, be careful not to eat them! As the page says, they're poisonous! My dad used to pick the "greens" of these, cook and eat them. But the plants have to be no more than 6 inches tall to be able to safely do that.
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Hi, sounds to me like it could be an Angel's Trumpet. Check out some of the gardening site for them. In Sounthern Cal, they should do quite well, my Mother grows then in NJ and they get quite big, I am starting some myself in Washington State, hopefully they grow nice here too.
Plants: 76 | From: Vancouver, washington | Registered: Jul 2003
| Seeded: 152.163.252.99
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angels trumpet (datura) is my guess too. I have white and purple. Love 'em I know several folks who have them perenially but they are annual here and I start them inside under grow lights Plants: 8 | From: zone 4/5 | Registered: Jun 2003
| Seeded: 209.23.5.158
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