Here is something else I found very interesting:
"The following Brugmansia x Datura hybrids were
produced by Gweneth L. Carson (1945) and Prakash Joshi (1949) as part of their Ph.D. research
at Smith College."
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/lisarts/Summer_Scent_L/BrugDatHybx.html
More information to ponder
WOW
Does anyone have any further information on this article? The link no longer works. Thanks, John
They will probably have the article available from your local botanical library. Its pretty interesting stuff. I think there was also a bit about D x B crosses in Blakeslee: The Genus Datura and some references. Blakeslee made hundred smaller publications about his experiments with Datura esp. and this could be thre place to dig for info as well.
Okay, I know Dats, but Brugs are still fairly new to me. I know they were once the same family, then seperated. But, you can cross Dats and Brugs???? I have a BUNCH of Dats this year. he he he Thanks to my friends, I have a few Brugs too. :)
Nope, until today there are no crosses between Brugs and Dats.
Once a time it worked in a laboraty( donīt know how..)they died before really start to grow...
Badseed, there are only one way to go about it and that is to keep trying. I failed at all attempts last year, but don`t let that stop you. Joyce refer to two very interesting articles and those was posted on Rich Sander personal homepage as well, but I just searched for it and it was not there. As I recall it they were made by cellfusion and grown in petridishes and sooner pottet up the usual way. I remember especially one of the laboratory crosses where I think that D. inoxia was used as a father on Brugmansia sanguinea. I am not sure if it was this specimen or the other cross that I don`t remember, that bloomed. However the anthers was sterile. I know I have the article somewhere in a box on the cieling and I can take a photo of it, if you are interested in it.
Just located the link to the above site:
http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/will_they_cross.htm
I must have left my brain somewhere outside today, because they did not use cell fusion to create those crosses, but merely embryo-culture and that makes things a lot more easy as this tecknic can be used with success by all of us.