DATURA — ThornApple , Angel ’s Trumpet
yearly and untoughened shrubby repeated blossoming plants . They are natives of tropical America , Mexico and Europe , and belong to the Nightshade family line , Solanaceae . Datura is the previous Arabic name . The most familiar kind is Datura ( Brugmansia ) arborea , which bears large , white fragrant blooms in summertime and is a favorite industrial plant for tubful .
Tender Perennials
The shrubby kinds are cultivated in a greenhouse with a minimum winter temperature of 45 degrees and outdoors where piddling or no freeze occurs . When overwinter indoors in pots or tubs they may be placed out of doors during the summer . They grow up to 10 foot . in stature , have woody stem , and large ovate leaves , and give rise pink , yellow , crimson or white trump - mold flower in summertime . The flora are either grown in large pots or tubs or planted in a inclined seam in the greenhouse .
The shoots are trained to wire attach to the wall . In the young stages , the plant life are repot frequently until they are large enough for bathing tub . Established flora are watered once a workweek with liquid fertilizer during the summer . Shade is not require except for newly pot plants . Pruning consists of shortening the side shoots by two - thirds after flowering . Very little water is expect during the winter , sufficient only being return to prevent the stem from shriveling .
Propagation is by inserting cutting of young shoot in a greenhouse in spring .
Shrubby kind are
Datura arborea , Angel ’s Trumpet , 10 ft . , white
D. sanguinea , 9 ft . , red
D. suaveolens , 12 ft . , white
D. chlorantha , 10 foot . , scandalmongering
D. cornigera ( syn . Knightii ) , lily-white
The yearly kinds are suitable for the motley flower margin during summertime . They acquire about 3 ft . in peak , have large ovoid folio and trump - shape flowers in white , red or pink . The seeds are sown in light dirt in a warm greenhouse in March . The immature plant are transplanted singly into small pots and are planted out of door in rich soil and in full sun as soon as it is secure to establish tomatoes outside . In the South the seed may be sown immediately out of doors .
The chief yearly form are D. Metel , 3 ft . , blush whitened ; D. Metel rubra , red . D. meteloides , produce as an annual although technically a perennial is 1 - 3 foot . high . Its fragrant white blooms are tinged with pinkish or lilac .
Economic Uses
One variety of Datura , D. Stramonium , the Jimson Weed or Thorn Apple , furnishes an significant drug with narcotic , anodyne and antispasmodic properties , commonly bed as Stramonium . It is a coarse - growing one-year plant receive naturalise as a weed in most parts of the United States . Its juice is poisonous and eating wilted plants is likely to prove fateful .
grow in two or three month to a stature of 2 - 3 ft . with a similar breadth , Jimson Weed has large , long - stalked , affectionateness - mold leaf with undulated or wavy margins , white , tubular flowers and declamatory , egg - shape , barbed fruit fill with black , kidney - determine seeded player
