Comments on: Deadly Datura http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/ . . . exploring the world around us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: April Mattox http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-46660 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:33:30 +0000 http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-46660 I am from the Southwest and recently moved to the northwest. The genus for the "sacred datura" is Datura. The "angel's trumpet" is a common landscaping plant found in the northwest and along the coast of California. The genus for the angel's trumpet is Brugsmania. Although the flowers are similar, the angel's trumpet is not poisonous to the degree of the datura, if at all. I have never seen the datura used as a lanscaping plant. This example highlights the problem with common names, as well as wikipedia. I am from the Southwest and recently moved to the northwest. The genus for the “sacred datura” is Datura. The “angel’s trumpet” is a common landscaping plant found in the northwest and along the coast of California. The genus for the angel’s trumpet is Brugsmania. Although the flowers are similar, the angel’s trumpet is not poisonous to the degree of the datura, if at all. I have never seen the datura used as a lanscaping plant. This example highlights the problem with common names, as well as wikipedia.

]]> by: Lowell and Kaye Christie http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9780 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:17:15 +0000 http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9780 Hi Phyl, Yes, that's the same plant. It goes by a lot of names. According to <a title="Wikipedia on Datura" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>: <blockquote>Common names include jimson weed, Hell's Bells, Devil's weed, Devil's cucumber, thorn-apple (from the spiny fruit), pricklyburr (similarly), and somewhat paradoxically, both angel's trumpet and devil's trumpet (from their large trumpet-shaped flowers), or as Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to it in the the Scarlet Letter apple-peru.</blockquote> Lowell Hi Phyl,

Yes, that’s the same plant. It goes by a lot of names. According to Wikipedia:

Common names include jimson weed, Hell’s Bells, Devil’s weed, Devil’s cucumber, thorn-apple (from the spiny fruit), pricklyburr (similarly), and somewhat paradoxically, both angel’s trumpet and devil’s trumpet (from their large trumpet-shaped flowers), or as Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to it in the the Scarlet Letter apple-peru.

Lowell

]]> by: Phyl http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9777 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:37:38 +0000 http://www.ourwindowonnature.com/2007/09/11/deadly-datura/#comment-9777 Just read about this sacred datura flower. I have an angel's trumpet plant that looks just like the one you have pictured. It is also considered poisonous. Are they the same plant? Just read about this sacred datura flower. I have an angel’s trumpet plant that looks just like the one you have pictured. It is also considered poisonous. Are they the same plant?

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