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Posted by aprilfool 7 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 8, 07 at 15:38
Click on the link below and see a picture of my Moon Bush. The white trumpet shaped flowers open at night and stay open untill about 10 A.M. After the flower falls, it developes a round green seed pod, about the size of a golf ball. It has sharp needle like stickers. After it turns brown you can harvest the pod, but you will have to use gloves to handle the pod because the stickers are sharp. I use a hammer to gently burst the pod open. It had lots of seed inside.
Mine comes up from the roots each spring.
I will post here after I harvest the seed and offer the seed to any who wants some.
I have them by my driveway and they make a lovely display for me to enjoy each morning as I leave the driveway. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Photo Bucket
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RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I'd love to get my hands on some, when the time comes. They'd make a much better addition around my moon-flower tree instead of the dusty millers that are struggling down there now... Looks great, by the way... |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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Thanks Arjo, I'll be happy to send you some of the seed when they are ripe.
I never saw a moon tree. Do you have a picture of it? |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| lol, sorry, I was referring to the oak tree around which I have moon flower vines trained. <ducks> There's a thread just below this one (Ipomoea Alba) where I uploaded a couple snapshots of them starting up the tree... |
RE: Contact Details
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| by the way, I should have mentioned that you can contact me at arjo_reich@yahoo.com so we can work out the exchanges down the road. ;-p |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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ario, I sent you an email.
Peggy |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| Have been searching for this bush for 3 years since I saw one in Northern Wisconsin. Would certainly appreciate any seeds that you can spare. carolc37@yahoo.com. will pay postage if you have any for me. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I have a Datura bush like yours growing in a pot and I see you are zone 7. I'll have to try it in the ground. Have you had any dermatitis problems from the leaves? Another name is thornapple, mine may be setting some seed this year. |
Datura
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| Your "moonbush" is beautiful. I recently found it growing in an alley in my neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. I did some research and found that it is called 'datura' has been used as a hallucinogenic drug for centuries, so be careful around it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| thats extacally what i have been trying to find april when you get ready to harvest may i pls get some will send a sase or whatever needs to be done thank u |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| Please save some seeds for me too. Thanks. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I love these flowers... my circle is packed with this flower and I love seeing them at night before i go to work. I am around the Dayton Ohio area and if anyone wants some of the seeds at pod time, I'll be happy to share them. holler at me with an address and i'll send you a pods worth of seeds ( which is several hundred seeds) I have plenty to share. I've already started my second bed of this flower. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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arjo reich - I was wondering if you are still willing to share some of your moon bush seed pods? I would gladly pay you for shipping and the pods. They would look lovely around the bottom of my oak tree on which I have hanging a number of orchids. Still working for that "moon" garden! Thank you
keepie@cfl.rr.com |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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Hello all, I am new here. I have been looking for the seed from a moonflower BUSH, as someone posted above.
If anyone is still offering some, I'd love some pods, or the seeds. They are so beautiful, and I really miss having them. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| have plenty of seeds of moon flowerb also datura (purple people eater )seed aswell next to moon plants they look great about the same size blooms are similar only purple and white ruffledhowever you will proball need to hold till spring and start thats when i put mine out some sometimes winter over but not enough to make a real show email me if you want seeds i do not follow this post i stay on carolina gardening lol |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I know this post is old but was wondering if you still had the moon bush and had any seeds? Thanks |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I live in Tennessee. Around here we call that plant 'jimson weed'. It grows wild. Even the cows know not to eat it - they will starve first. It is highly poisonous, deadly if you eat enough of the seeds. It is a halluconigenic, and I know of a couple of neighborhood kids who picked some of the leaves and steeped it into a tea and drank it. They were 'high' for 72 hours until the effects wore off. The oil in the seeds, if eaten, is stored in the liver, and I was told by the local emergency room, that certain substances(mostly unknown and unstudied at this time), ingested up to fifteen years later (yes, 15 years), can trigger and produce another episode. Please, be very careful when handling the plant, blooms, pods and seeds. Wear protective clothing, do not touch your skin or face, and wash throughly after handling. It terrifies me to think one of my fellow gardeners would meet horrific circumstances, due to lack of information. God Bless. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| I agree with dynamite. Anyone should use common sense, as with other plants such as Castor Bean. Recently, I sent some Moonflower seeds out, but now wish I had not. Jimison Weed is around here also. I transplanted some, however, it is a bit different looking than the Moonflower Bush I have. Jimison Weed has smaller, courser, leaves and the blooms are a bit smaller. The blooms on my plants are huge. |
RE: Picture of my Moon Bush
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| My fiancee fell in love with one of these plants that grows along the path we take when we go for walks. When the seed pods were bursting open, we stopped and got some of the seeds. A spike on the seed ball punctured my thumb and it was numb for 10 minutes. LOL But now I have plenty seeds to plant. Does anyone happen to know if they are best started in a container, or if it'd be best to sow directly into the ground? |
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