RE: Ipomeoea alba Moonflowers

>Well, Susan, as you might expect from a newbie, I'm not sure of the
>botanical name--I looked up moonflowers in the Sunset National Garden
>book and it said Ipomea alba.  My "latin" extends to oon-may owers-flay.
>I looked up datura in the same reference book and I'm pretty sure that's
>not it--I'm still leaning towards it being I. alba


The daturas/brugmansias are much more shrubby or even tree-like, but they
give lots more bloom for the buck, so to speak.  Here in Zone 5, I. alba
takes much to long to bloom.  There are lots better vines, IMHO.


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d*@post.its.mcw.edu

"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."



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