For pointing up flowers, Alfred graf suggests maybe d. meteloides, d.wrightii, d.chlorantha and d.cornigera

Richard brugmasia suaveolens with blooms pointing down is not the same as the plant in question of which I am now more confused than ever. Its blooms point up. The angel trumpets do have an intoxicating fragrance in the evenings. “In contrast to angel trumpet (Brugmansia species), which has flowers that point downward (perhaps toward hell?), devilÕs trumpet has flowers that generally point upwards (towards heaven?).” From the Georgia gardener files. Well go figure. I am leaning towards Datura inoxia as Stone suggested.

It was once called a floropundia but has been reclasified as a brugmasia suaveolens. It is in the toxic datura tribe and has a lovely oder in the evenings. Richard

Searching “Datura Alba wikipedia” gets links to datura metel…. (datura meteloides) Above plant is unlikely to be datura metel… Although… searching datura metel will produce a visually similar plant… Also… ” Datura inoxia” There must be a difference… From wikipedia datura inoxia wiki: “Datura inoxia is quite similar to Datura metel, to the point of being confused with it in early scientific literature. D. metel is a closely related Old World plant for which similar effects were described by Avicenna in eleventh century Persia. The closely related Datura stramonium differs in having smaller flowers and tooth-edged leaves, and Datura wrightii in having wider, 5-toothed (instead of 10-toothed) flowers. Datura inoxia differs from D. stramonium, D. metel & D.fastuosa in having about 7 to 10 secondary veins on either side of the midrib of the leaf which anastomose by arches at about 1 to 3 mm. from the margin. No anastomosis of the secondary veins are seen in the other 4 major species of Datura.” That may as well be Greek… Found a better description of the difference… “Flowers of D. wrightii have a sweet fragrance and leaves are often wavy and rounded at the base. Flowers are often tinted purple at the margins. NO anastomosis of secondary veinlets is seen as compared to D. Innoxia.” http://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_basic_difference_between_Datura_innoxia_and_Datura_stramonium_How_one_can_identify_them_in_the_field So… Maybe… Datura inoxia is a better ID for above plant… Thanks for asking… I’d seen discussions of d inoxia before, but hadn’t tried to narrow down the differences b4.

Walter & Stone is Datura Alba an obsolete botanical name and is the Devils trumpet link I shared incorrect?

datura wrightii http://stonethegardener.tumblr.com/tagged/datura I move the tomato hornworms to this plant and nightshade, so that I can enjoy the huge moths as seen on the link…. Sacred datura is a stunning landscape plant that is completely ignored by deer.

Devils trumpet. http://www.walterreeves.com/gardening-q-and-a/devils-trumpet-identification/