Re: datura questions

I have a sort of passion for the daturas, but I have to admit it would be a difficult proposition to guesstimate the species names for these.  Datura taxonomy is pretty confused anyway.

I would hazard a very tentative suggestion that the first might be Datura stramonium 'tatula', called Datura tatula by some.  The second I would not care to guess at, though D. innoxia (=D. wrighti??) is a very commonly cultivated datura in a number of colors which are often sold without a spp name.  There are also a few individuals out there still referring to Brugsmanias as "tree-datura", but I'm making the assumption that you knew that.

I love pictures of daturas, so if you get the notion to put up a picture somewhere where we can take a look at it, maybe someone can take a better crack at the species names for you.  If you lack a server space to upload a picture to, I can probably help with that.  If you lack a scanner, many film developing places now will do scanning, as will photo-copy outlets such as "Kinkos".  I would also be willing to scan a photo for you.

Thanks for flying,
Glider

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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:44:08   Dawndoll2 wrote:
>I would like to know if anyone can tell me the different species Datura names 
>of the following.
>
>1. Large white Datura flowers...has pale purple edging when opening and have 
>been measured at about 6-7 inches across. The stems seem to have a purple 
>tinge as do the seed pods spikes.
>2. smaller white Datura flowers-has pale yellow edging when opening and have 
>been measured at about 2-4 inches across. The stems seem to be plain green 
>and same for the spikes on the seed pods.



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