{"id":3891,"date":"2016-07-05T01:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:19:07","slug":"datura-angels-trumpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/datura-angels-trumpet\/","title":{"rendered":"Datura, Brugmansia or Angels Trumpets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/datura-angels-trumpet\/attachment\/datura\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3892\" title=\"datura\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/datura.jpg\" alt=\"datura\" width=\"387\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/datura.jpg 387w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/datura-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My <strong>Datura<\/strong> last year were a perfect white when in flower and I collected fresh seed in good quantity.<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t keep the plants frost free so they died. Unfortunately none of the seed have germinated so I am without these large trumpet shaped flowers. I was nearly tempted to buy this pink plant for the green house but resisted to spend the money on something more practical like a new Hoe.<\/p>\n<p>The Brugmansia plant is <strong>poisonous<\/strong> and this is reflected in some of the common names; it is know by Devil&#8217;s Trumpet, Hell&#8217;s Bells, Devil&#8217;s Weed, Devil&#8217;s Cucumber, Sacred Datura, Angel&#8217;s trumpet, Moonflower, Thorn apple, Indian apple, Pricklyburr, and Jimson Weed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Madiera mch11 152 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5591926898\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5065\/5591926898_855c0e2922.jpg\" alt=\"Madiera mch11 152\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let this put you off, <strong>Datura<\/strong> look great in a large container in a sheltered sunny spot in the garden, indoors or in the conservatory. The scent is fantastic and the scale extraordinary. Plants 6-8 feet high with 18&#8243; trumpet flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Brugsmansia and <strong>Datura<\/strong> are explained in far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1552095584\/richardpettin-21\">more detail<\/a> in this book available from Amazon on this link.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1552095584\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1552095584.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brugmansia Species<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brugmansia \u00c3\u2014candida is an evergreen shrub growing 10 to 20 feet tall and has white trumpet flowers<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia arborea (tree)<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia aurea<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia insignis<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia sanguinea<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia suaveolens<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia versicolor<\/li>\n<li>Brugmansia vulcanicola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=brugmansia+candida&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=734\">More images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees. Brugmansia have pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones. They are both from the Solanacea family.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Datura Species<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Datura\">from wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n* Datura ceratocaula .<br \/>\n* Datura discolor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Desert Thorn-apple<br \/>\n* Datura ferox. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Long Spined Thorn-apple<br \/>\n* Datura inoxia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Thorn-apple, Downy Thorn-apple, Indian-apple, Moonflower, Sacred Datura, Toloatzin, Toloache<br \/>\n* Datura leichhardtii h. (syn. D. pruinosa) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Leichhardt&#8217;s Datura<br \/>\n* Datura metel \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Devil&#8217;s trumpet[2]<br \/>\n* Datura quercifolia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Oak-leaf Thorn-apple<br \/>\n* Datura stramonium (syn. D. inermis) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jimsonweed, Thorn-apple<br \/>\n* Datura wrightii \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sacred Datura, Sacred Thorn-apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels trumpets are wonderfully scented with large pastel coloured flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}