Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see it at the following link:

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6505/flowerel1.jpg

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think) yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be pretty hardy.

Thanks!

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:53:34 +0100, Daisy
wrote:


Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!


Morning glory or bindweed or maybe jimson weed

Daisy wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!





Definitely a Datura (Jimson weed, thornapple, devil trumpet, loco
weed,etc.) Probably either D. inoxia or D.stramonium . Not sure.
Highly toxic, do not eat/rub your eyes etc. after handling. Folks have
died from trying to get high/hallucinate from the seeds/whatever. A kid
in germany cut off his own tongue and penis while using a tea from a
datura or related brugmansia IIRC.
The flowers last only about a day, opening at night to be pollinated by
a large moth. There are several cultivated varieties - some purple,
double purple, yellow, etc. Does well in sun/heat.

Carl


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Daisy schrieb:


I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4


Datura innoxia

see http://www.giftpflanzen.com/datura_innoxia.html



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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!




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Daisy

I can't see leaf well, but looks like Datura stramonium, extremelly
poisonous. In the past used for poisoning someone who is "****ing upstream
of Your creek". Many people died of using it during somekind rituals. The
flower smells seductive.. The seed is used for that, and also used in
official farmacolgy to make some medicaments. Poison in small doses is a
cure.

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:
Daisy wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!





Definitely a Datura (Jimson weed, thornapple, devil trumpet, loco
weed,etc.) Probably either D. inoxia or D.stramonium . Not sure.
Highly toxic, do not eat/rub your eyes etc. after handling. Folks have
died from trying to get high/hallucinate from the seeds/whatever. A kid
in germany cut off his own tongue and penis while using a tea from a
datura or related brugmansia IIRC.
The flowers last only about a day, opening at night to be pollinated by
a large moth. There are several cultivated varieties - some purple,
double purple, yellow, etc. Does well in sun/heat.

Carl



here's one of mine;
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2687365

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I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

Not enough clues here to be sure (what size was the flower; what did the
leaves look like?) but at this point I'd say it was probably a morning
glory.

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:53:34 +0100, Daisy
wrote:


Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!

Datura inoxia. D. stramonium has a deeper cut leaf and the flower is
not as circular at the edge. I collect Datura and have seeds for
D.wrightii, D. inoxia, D.metel and others. The D.wrightii are huge
flowers and can be as large as 5 feet tall and ten feet wide. We
counted blooms on three plants the other night and it was well over a
hundred.

Many thanks to all who replied. It's definitely Datura inoxia.

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:58:39 +0100, Daisy
wrote:


Many thanks to all who replied. It's definitely Datura inoxia.

This plant species is in the nightshade family with tomatoes,
eggplants, and potatoes. AKA the Solanacea family of plants. All
parts of this particular plant can potentially kill a human, but so
can the foliage of a tomato plant. Seeds of datura can cause
hallucenations, which is why kids eat the seeds and usually take too
many and have been showing up dead. In New Jersey, several years ago
there were ten teens who died from eating the seeds. They can also
cause psychotic breaks.

MANY plants will do this.

Jangchub schrieb:


not as circular at the edge. I collect Datura and have seeds for
D.wrightii, D. inoxia, D.metel and others.
^^^^^^

Oh, I am looking for seed of D. ferox. Can you tell me a source?



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Benno Bös wrote:
Jangchub schrieb:



not as circular at the edge. I collect Datura and have seeds for
D.wrightii, D. inoxia, D.metel and others.

^^^^^^

Oh, I am looking for seed of D. ferox. Can you tell me a source?




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On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:03:41 +0200, Benno Bös
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Jangchub schrieb:


not as circular at the edge. I collect Datura and have seeds for
D.wrightii, D. inoxia, D.metel and others.
^^^^^^

Oh, I am looking for seed of D. ferox. Can you tell me a source?

That is one I don't have, but you are welcome to the D. wrightii,
which get flowers almost a foot tall and six inches wide all summer
into the late fall.

Out here in the High Mojave Desert it grows wild, but I have found out that
Gophers will NOT eat it's roots, so I'm planing on making a barrier of it
around my garden! That will be an awesome project too.


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Daisy wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!





Definitely a Datura (Jimson weed, thornapple, devil trumpet, loco
weed,etc.) Probably either D. inoxia or D.stramonium . Not sure.
Highly toxic, do not eat/rub your eyes etc. after handling. Folks have
died from trying to get high/hallucinate from the seeds/whatever. A kid in
germany cut off his own tongue and penis while using a tea from a datura
or related brugmansia IIRC.
The flowers last only about a day, opening at night to be pollinated by a
large moth. There are several cultivated varieties - some purple, double
purple, yellow, etc. Does well in sun/heat.

Carl


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I can tell one thing, yours while having the same flower, has leaves that
are not the same as the ones I grow out here.


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Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:
Daisy wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could identify a plant for me. You can see
it at the following link:

http://tinyurl.com/p33o4

It was seen in a perennial bed on the coast of Maine (zone 5, I think)
yesterday. It looks tropical, but wasn't in a container, so must be
pretty hardy.

Thanks!





Definitely a Datura (Jimson weed, thornapple, devil trumpet, loco
weed,etc.) Probably either D. inoxia or D.stramonium . Not sure.
Highly toxic, do not eat/rub your eyes etc. after handling. Folks have
died from trying to get high/hallucinate from the seeds/whatever. A kid
in germany cut off his own tongue and penis while using a tea from a
datura or related brugmansia IIRC.
The flowers last only about a day, opening at night to be pollinated by a
large moth. There are several cultivated varieties - some purple, double
purple, yellow, etc. Does well in sun/heat.

Carl



here's one of mine;
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2687365

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