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What Is This Garden Plant? (Datura)

What Is This Garden Plant?My friend just moved into a new home and we have been trying to figure out what kind of plant this is. It's grown very rapidly since she has moved in. It has flowers that only open at night and these spiky balls that just started growing on it.

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August 2, 20150 found this helpful
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Hello !
The plant is a Datura. Although the strenght of the toxins it contains depends on its age and condition of growth, consider all parts as extremely toxic, the seeds and the flowers being the most poisonous parts of the plant. It is an annual plant or a short live plant at the best. As it seems from the picture you have posted that the plant is reachable from the public space, I think that it should be cut back to its foot to do not run any risk.

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Hope this helps.

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October 22, 20160 found this helpful

Castor bean?

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December 31, 20160 found this helpful

Datura or moonflower.

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March 26, 20190 found this helpful

what kind of datura?

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April 20, 20190 found this helpful

Thanks, also known in the US as Jimsons weed.
Or Jamestown weed. Highly toxic. LSD x100%

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July 12, 20200 found this helpful

It is a weed and toxin.

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August 3, 20150 found this helpful
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This appears to be a datura plant.. The plant has very pretty flowers but unfortunately is quite poisonous.

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August 30, 20160 found this helpful

Looks like an Angel Trumpet to me. They only flower at night.

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September 12, 20160 found this helpful

How do you get rid of a datura plant safely I've one in my garden in Wiltshire with four quite big spikey funny looking things growing on it but the white flowers have stopped producing

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August 21, 20150 found this helpful

Looks like Angel's Trumpet to me....lol...it's both!! For other plants with the name "Angel's trumpet", see Angel's trumpet.

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Datura
DaturaMetel-plant.jpg
Datura metel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Subfamily: Solanoideae
Tribe: Datureae
Genus: Datura
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Type species
Datura stramonium
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Species
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Datura is a genus of nine species of poisonous vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae. They are known as angel's trumpets, sometimes sharing that name with the closely related genus Brugmansia, and commonly known as daturas. They are also sometimes called moonflowers, one of several plant species to be so. Its precise and natural distribution is uncertain, owing to its extensive cultivation and naturalization throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the globe. Its distribution within the Americas and North Africa, however, is most likely restricted to the United States and Mexico in North America, and Tunisia in Africa, where the highest species diversity occurs.
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All species of Datura are poisonous, especially their seeds and flowers.

Some South American plants formerly thought of as Datura are now treated as belonging to the distinct genus Brugmansia[1] (Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees, and it has pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones). Other related genera include Hyoscyamus and Atropa.

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Anonymous
November 7, 20150 found this helpful

wow that looks like a toothed danna

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Anonymous
March 29, 20180 found this helpful

Gypsum weed night shade poison

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