I don't know if this is the right forum to post daturas or not but I saw some other ones so I will post. If this picture shouldn't be in this forum, lmk, and I will ask one of the admin's to move it. Thanks. This is a datura I received in April from Yardbird.
I think this is it! Very pretty bloom!
It's pretty. I love dats and wish I had more room for growing them. Maybe next year I can put a row of them in the veggie garden and hope that none of the seed pods hide from me and break open out there.
Very pretty bloom, Vic.
Looks great Vic. This is my first year of growing a dat and I am so happy with it. Just sitting here looking at it, and it has 5 blooms open, and there are about 5 more that should open tomorrow. Too bad they don't last longer, but what a heavenly scent!!
Enjoy!
Glenda
Have one just like it and it is also my first year for Datura's. Mine have already set lots of seed pods and are starting to bloom again.
Glenda, even though Datura flowers only last for one night larger plants can be very beautiful as they sometimes can produce from 5-25 flowers each day, when on their peak. There is also a species with very small flowers called D. quercifolia, of which a large plant can open 40 + per day. It would be nice though, if the flowers also lasted as long as do Brugmansia flowers. What flushes they then could make :D
Vic, are the flowers always white on your plant?
The reason, why I ask is because whiteflowering varieties of D. wrightii is extremely rare.
Much of the species confusion of D. inoxia and D. wrightii originated, because that botanists and pharmaceuts often took the white flowered wrightii for an inoxia.
Even though, that Regel was very specific in his description of D. wrightii and Miller defined D. inoxia as specific as well, pharmaceuts, such as Helen Timmerman, when investigating these plants, went as far as to classify D. inoxia as a psynonymous with D. wrightii, whereas D. meteloides was defined by her as a species distinct from these.
Actually I just wanted to tell you, that it is a nice looking flower and foliage as well :)
Tonny
Tony is this the same as above or a different species.
Ted, that is D. wrightii as well :) A beautiful specimen. btw. did you note, that there are a slight touch of lavender around the edge? I love the "rounded" serration of the leaves :)
Here is D. inoxia (DATU-000) or white moonflower. Leaves of D. wrightii is thinner, the veins protudes a bit above the linear leaf surface and are relatively few compared to the number of veins in D. inoxia. D. wrightii has often threadlike tendrils, whereas D. inoxia has thich and often short tendrils. The stigma of D. wrightii often is 3-5 cm above the anthers ... I can line up several more differences to assist you in identifying, which of the two species, that you have, but here is a shortcut that always works. Smell :) Flowers of D. inoxia has a kind of spicy and sweet smell, whereasthe smell of D. wrightii is a lot sweeter with a hint of citrus. That is of course different, how we all interpret smells, but once, that you have smelled one of both I can tell you, that by smell alone, that you will never fail to recognize the one from the other :)
Vic it's pretty glad to see you venture in here. lol Don't you just love the smell? I may get you hooked on brugs yet. You are a step closier. lol Here is the one I was telling you about .
Oh Peggy, your's is beautiful. Wow!
Tonny, this is my first year to have this plant. It was given to me in April by DG user Yardbird and yes, it has always bloomed white.
Thank you all for your kind words.
