Datura pics

[flower]

Beautiful pictures!
I would like to share a few too...


A flowering Datura meteloides 'Alba'


Seedpods to the above one


Another Datura (now sure what this one is called)


A flowering Datura wrightii


A seedpod to the above one

[RifeHeretic]

Stunning pictures, flower! I especially liked the Seedpod one

[Hyakitaki]

Awe that pod looks so good.  Makes me hungry.

[RifeHeretic]

Ah but there are such better entheos for a wondering mind like yours

[Hyakitaki]

Well ya of course, Datura is just a bit to deadly for my tastes...still though it looks juicy and delicious

[dergheist]

Here is a photo of two of ours, double blooming up front and single blooming in back.

[dergheist]

Here is a better shot of a white double bloomer of ours.

[Wakinyan]

Datura wrightii is a bridge Datura in that it can be crossed to 4 different species of datura. wrightii can be crossed to metel, inoxia, leichardtii, and quercifolia. Very beautiful specimen you have there.

[Jaeda]

Ya know, there is another way to put Datura to use - without ingesting it - but it's really best in a ritual or ceremonial setting where one is already aiming for a particular state of mind with or without the use of anything that could be considered an intoxicant or ingested or what have you...

Beautiful D. wrightii... I don't have that one this year. I am coddling various seeds to germinate though.... and unfortunately I think an unknown Dat I brought in might have spider mites.. need to go find the magnifying glass...

[Wakinyan]

I saw some of those in bloom in the wild last time I was in California. Have you crossed any of these to D. inoxia or D. metel. I'd love to make those crosses this summer if you have any spare seed floating around. I don't know if crossing (D. Wrightii x D. inoxia) x (D. wrightii x D. metel) would work, but I'm still dreaming of getting a single flowered dark  purple flower.

[dergheist]

I do not know who's pictures everyone is talking about or who Wakinyan is talking to, but I have Double Blooming Solid Colored Purple Datura plants, I do not know what var except that this looks exactly like those in the photos of mine just dark purple instead.  I have little seed of these as they came from a neighbors plant and I will not be around here long enough to see them set seed again.  I will however, have seed probably in early fall from the plants that I have growing as of right now.   I will keep ya posted and post a picture or two when they bloom.

Also, I am not 100% positive, but are those in my photos inoxia and not wrightii as they do not have the tinge around the corolla nor the familar smell of wrightii, plus they have a wavy corolla and 10 spikes instead of 5 long and 5 short.  Just asking anybody with more knowledge on classification of these if they could help in positive identification.

[Wakinyan]

I am admiring the D.wrightii pictures. As for your Double purple Derheist, I would say that you have a Datura metel. Datura inoxia has a short spiked fruit whereas Datura metel has a smoothed bumped fruit.

[dergheist]

Thank you.

[DrYRHead]

That type of datura grows in the SW-USA. It is pretty common. They are pretty, but quite nasty when taken as a drug.