Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine - flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple[2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).

May 17, 2021 · Datura plants grow quickly and may get up to 4 feet (1 m.) tall. The blooms are fragrant and particularly so at night. Most flowers are white but they may also be yellow, purple, lavender and red. Stems are soft, but erect, and they have a grayish green tinge. Leaves are lobed and lightly furred.

Datura discolor, or the Desert Datura grows in northern Mexico and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert regions. The feathery white flower features a complementary purple throat.

Jul 20, 2023 · Datura plants are herbaceous perennials or annuals, ranging in height from 1 to 5 feet. They have large, trumpet-shaped flowers that come in various colors such as white, yellow, or purple. The flowers emit a sweet, intoxicating fragrance that lures in …

Datura metel 'Belle Blanche' is a particularly fine variety of Angel's Trumpet with blue-green leaves and 8"-long glistening white, upward-facing trumpet flowers that carry a sweet perfume, redolent of Honeysuckle and especially strong at night.

Jan 30, 2022 · Flowers on either plant can be white to lavender. Datura flowers can bloom any time of day, while ipomoea flowers open up at dusk and bloom during the night; one reason they are called moonflowers.

Datura is a bountiful patio plant that transforms at night into a luminous beacon in moon and tropical themed gardens. It thrives in warm summer weather and should be grown in a warm, protected spot in northern gardens to enhance its growth and night fragrance. Caution: all …

Dramatic in garden beds and large containers, Belle Blanche has glistening white, trumpet-shaped flowers. Perfect for midnight moon gardens, its flowers open at twilight and exude a heady lemon-cream fragrance, lasting for just a day.

These seeds will produce true white trumpet-shaped flowers. These are the pure white flowers, not to be confused with the more common Datura Stramonium Lilac Le Fleur, which has white flowers with purple throats. The flowers fall and are replaced by two-inch spiky seed pods.

Ballerina white. Introduced by Dutch grower, Sahin in 1998, the upward facing, trumpet-like blooms of this datura can be 8 inches in length. They provide a double, bloom within a bloom, appearance with the swirling petals making this a very complicated trumpet indeed.