Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Datura innoxia? stramonium? metel? meteloides?, 1 by

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I know, that D. stramonium cross with D. inoxia and D. meteloides and D. wrightii. The same is true about D. tatula. I have never carried the experiment through, but I am pretty sure, that the species D. metel origin from such crosses. During the years I have found the mentioned species developed secondary corolla growth attached to the filaments and have also grown a true double of D. inoxia. I think, that it is possible to produce the primitive forms of the white, single metel by crossing D. stramonium to D. inoxia and the colored metels by using D. tatula or bernhardtii and cross to D. meteloides. Maybe I will try that some day and if it prove correct and primitive specimens of D. etel come out of the crosses it would not longer be D. metel, but D. x metel. *LOL* - like B. x candida. :)