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07-08-2003, 04:43 PM
Sacha
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mystery plant
in article , Franz Heymann at
wrote on 7/8/03 3:29 pm:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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in article , David Hill at
wrote on 6/8/03 11:26 pm:
"....... Family: Solanacea
Genus: Datura I didn't want to narrow it down to Genus, so I used
family
instead.. ........"
Well you live and learn.....
Now all that's left is to identify the plant
Looking at Phillips & Rix I'm as sure as is possible that it's Brugmansia
x
candida. "An evergreen shrub (a natural hybrid between B. aurea and B.
versicolor) with pendulous fragrant white, rarely yellow or pink
flowers......flowering in summer-autumn. Shrub to 5m. Leaves 30-50cm
long,
alternate, ovate, mostly untoothed, with wavy margins. Flowers to 30cm
long, rather narrowly trumpet-shaped, with recurved lobes and a
spathe-like
calyx."
I'm going to forward this to David Poole.
Please don't forget to tell him that Brugmansia and Datura are synynymous.
[Franz Heymann]
I'd rather eat coal than dream of giving DP instructions on either or
indeed, anything!
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sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
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