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Mark Herbert wrote:

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Datura? :-)

IIRC, if they are pointing downwards, they are brugmansia, if they
point upwards, they are datura.

I've found huuuuuuuggggeee brugmansia trees in quite a few places
here on Oahu. No dying back so they just keep growing and growing
and growing and....

Tracey

Sounds lovely, thanks for the plant lesson! :-)
I'm always up for an education...

Do they have similar alkaloids?

Yep. Here's one of my Daturas. This one is several years old. By the
end of the summer it has spread to about 10 feet in diameter. Late in
the summer I pluck at least 20 spent flowers from this plant alone
(sometimes 50-60) each evening in order to prevent seed pod formation
and promote blooming. I have been trying to get night pictures of
hawkmoths feeding on my Daturas, which has proven to be a maddening
exercise in futility.

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Very nice!!! We used to have those growing wild when I lived in
California in the upper Mojave. I've seen colored Datura plants in
Austin for sale. I don't own any yet but it's in the eventual plans.
They are so pretty!

Those hummingbird moths are skittish. I've seen them feeding on my honey
suckle at dusk, and they really get happy when I plant moonvines and
those huge white flowers start to bloom at night.
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