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moonflower/datura - lanterns & dollars
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Posted by abintra z5 Ont CA (My Page) on Thu, Sep 15, 05 at 18:03
I was given some green pods of moonflower last night from a friend (been promised for 3 yrs... finally!). Anyway - I am drying them out on an outside windowsill... as the seeds (yes I cut one open) seem a little green to me.
So will this be ok... should I plant them this coming fall ( I live along north Lake ontario (port hope)) in about a 5 zone... or should I save some for next spring?
My friend lives in a similar enviroment... it seems both seeds & roots give her new plants.
Anyway - I was hoping, also - someone could email me a pic of the foilage... abintra@symaptico.ca so I will recognize it next year... I have a bad habit of weeding new seeds!!!
Also I am looking for chinese lantern plants... and silver dollars...
these are a large prickly pod - sort of mini versions of invasion of the body snachers... larger than a horse chesnut.
I think they are the datura bush variety.
Has anyone read Jean Auel's Clan of the cave bear & etc?
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RE: moonflower/datura - lanterns & dollars
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| If your seed pods look like a small thorny apple, it is Datura. I normally let the seed pods ripen on the plant and harvest them when the pods begin to open. I haven't read the book that you are speaking of, but Datura is a sacred plant to several religions. The plant is poisonous and contains alkaloids that are powerful hallucinogens. People have died trying to use it as a recreational drug. We have to treat the plant as an annual in this climate. I harvest seed to start in the greenhouse. It does self sow in the garden if you allow it to form pods. The best way to keep yourself from pulling the seedlings is to start them in pots. |
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