2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The representative of the Solanaceae family, a powerful herb with large flowers, will not leave indifferent beauty lovers, lulling a person's vigilance with its decorativeness. After all, no matter how much you tell a person that not every beauty brings joy to people, he again and again falls for her "bait"
Rod Datura
Being in nature perennial plants, sometimes woody, plants of the genus
Datura (Datura) or, in Russian, Dope, grown in culture as annuals.
The Almighty laid such power in them that the summer months are enough for them to grow large green leaves on long stalks, towering above the surface of the earth as a huge branchy bush, rapidly spreading to the sides. Under such leaves, the chances of weeds being born are zero.
In the forks of the stem, large single funnel-shaped flowers show their beauty to the world. More often the corolla of flowers is snow-white, but varieties have been bred, in which white-cream, yellowish, pink, purple-red, lilac or lilac "hats of fabulous gnomes" with perky raised sharp tips hang from their greenish throat, like bulbs of a Christmas tree garland. In some species, lantern flowers exude aroma. Bred varieties with double flowers.
The seed pods of the plant, like green miniature hedgehogs, adorn the bush during ripening, resembling the fruits of the Mad Cucumber. True, the tree species of Datura have fruit pods without thorns.
Datura varieties
* Datura Indian (Datura metel) - its stems with a reddish tint form a lush bush up to 1.5 meters high. The corolla of simple or double flowers is painted in white-cream, lilac, yellowish, purple-red tones. Hanging flowers, up to 20 cm long.
* Common datature (Datura stramonium) - differs in unpretentious character and erect (and not drooping) white flowers, inferior in size to the previous species (flower length up to 10 cm). Shrub up to a meter high, blooms in summer.
* Datature of corniger (Datura cornigera) is a 3-meter plant blooming in summer with white or yellow fragrant drooping flowers. Flowers to match the height of the bush, up to 20 cm long.
* Datura fragrant (Datura suaveolens) is a treelike giant that grows up to 5 meters in height. For large long (up to 30 cm) white flowers, the plant is called"
Angel trumpet . After sunset, the drooping flowers exude a strong aroma.
* Datura innoxia (Datura innoxia) - or
Datura Indian (not to be confused with"
Indian ). A meter long herbaceous annual plant with a grayish tint, which gives the bush a soft bristle covering the leaves and stem. White, lilac or pink flowers exude aroma at night. The wounds of the plant fill the air with the unpleasant smell of their
poisonous components dangerous to humans and animals, while the seeds are used for medicinal purposes.
Growing
Datura - a very finicky creature of nature.
The plant is thermophilic, and therefore the planting site requires a sunny one.
The soil is needed fertile, rich in organic matter, plus mineral fertilizing twice a month during the entire summer cottage.
If winter gardens are decorated with Datura, then larger containers are chosen for planting, filling them with soil from peat and sand.
In hot weather, abundant watering is necessary. Potted specimens also require watering.
Only shrub species are sheared to give them the shape the gardener needs.
Reproduction
The seeds can be in the soil for years in a state of "hibernation", and then suddenly show their powerful leaves to the surface. That is why, the acquisition of old summer cottages sometimes presents summer residents with pleasant or unpleasant surprises in flower beds and in the beds.
Herbaceous species of Datura are propagated by spring sowing of seeds for seedlings. If, due to spring hassle or due to lack of space in the greenhouse or on the windowsill, the sowing was not carried out in a timely manner, you can later sow the seeds directly into the open ground.
Shrub species are additionally propagated by spring cuttings.
Enemies
Oddly enough, Datura's poisons do not affect the spider mite, and therefore it can be found on the plant. Datura and viral diseases can infect.
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Poisonous Mushrooms
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