A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Mystery {angels trumpet~datura?? no pic}

I have a couple of plants that came up in the
middle of a flowerbed I planted and I haven't
been able to find them in any plant glossary.
They have enormous leaves that are a dark
green. One has matured and has flowers that
look like small white trumpets. The plant is
about as big as a bushel basket. it has large
stalks about 1/2 in. in diameter.
The leaves are about 4" long and 2" wide and
it's mostly leaves and not too many flowers.

Does anyone have any idea what this guy is?
It may be something that used to be popular
and isn't anymore. I must have stirred it up
when I spaded the ground for the bed.

I'll add a picture later if we can't figure it out.
I hope it's not a Beanstalk as in Jack and
the Beanstalk.

Gene

GeneG69, any chance they might be Poke weeds? Here's an address of a page with pictures:
http://kaweahoaks.com/html/poke.html

If so, be careful not to eat them! As the page says, they're poisonous! My dad used to pick the "greens" of these, cook and eat them. But the plants have to be no more than 6 inches tall to be able to safely do that.

Hi, sounds to me like it could be an Angel's Trumpet. Check out some of the gardening site for them. In Sounthern Cal, they should do quite well, my Mother grows then in NJ and they get quite big, I am starting some myself in Washington State, hopefully they grow nice here too.

angels trumpet (datura) is my guess too.
I have white and purple. Love 'em
I know several folks who have them perenially but they are annual here and I start them inside under grow lights