This is the 1st Datura bloom. It is almost as big as the plant. Do Datura spread by roots or just seeds?
Sugar
little plant-Big bloom
Pretty!!! I am waiting on mine.. I am sure it spread by seeds! They said they are annual but I was not sure...
Glory
Apr 18, 2002
Daturas are seeders.
Mini....in your area you might have a datura or two return from last year. I have an Inoxia Datura that has returned for the past three years from the same root....this Datura is growing outside next to my garage.
Wow, that is just too cool :)
Hope mine come up from seed like that
Beautiful - two of mine are budding at only 3 inches - I can't wait to see the flowers! :)
Wow -
Mine have flowers and/or buds too, and only 3-8" tall, hehehe. They are so cute.
A fine tiny Datura tatula you got, sugar :) During summer it will probably put out a seedpod for nearly each flower and that is many seeds :) A pod contains from 100-400 seeds.
tatula contains many ecotypes. Some are low and spreading, other tall and slender. I have one with double chroomozome number, that grows to nearly 2. m high and 2.5 across. This is also true for a cross between this plant and D. quercifolia. Here the fruits are very small, with large seeds and white flowers with strong bluish margin :)
Tonny, I have a tatula that grows about as big was the one you describe---does that mean it's probably a tetraploid, too? I got the original plant from a local creekbank, where it was about a meter high and half that wide. (That was several years ago.) Its seeds have produced more plants each year, but last year was the first time I'd gotten any THAT big! Did I have a mutation, or was last year just a good year for datura? The three plants that got the biggest were the ones that got the most sun, of course, but they were about 8 feet tall---that's roughly 2.75 meters---tall, and I can't say how wide---they grew through each other and formed a flowering fence across the end of my yard. They were bigger than my brugs!