But it isn't. At least from what I can find out... HELP!!! It has deep purple blooms that are about 5 or so inches across when open and "point" up. My neighbor says that they are from the same family as "Angel Trumpets" Here are some pics...

The plant


Seed pods (these are the size of a ping-pong ball


open pod with seeds showing


bloom getting ready to open


Thanks guys! I want to send some seeds out inthe swap, but need to know what I have first!

Lucky you!!! You have a brugmansia!

Looks like a nice, healthy plant - how long has it been growing there?

It's a Datura....the blooms on datura point up and those of the brugmansia hang down.

OK Alan - I thought brugmansia, because I didn't know that daturas came in purple too. I had had a purple brug. I also thought what you said was correct about the pointing up or down, but since I didn't know daturas can be purple, I changed my mind.

Thanks for the clarification!

It is actually my neighbor acroos the street who has this plant. She did give me some seeds from it. Now that I know what it is for sure- I will send some of the seeds in for the swap!

Tonya, those blooms will be gorgeous...probably white or lilac in the inside of the petals. It could be a Ballerina Purple Datura or Black Currant Swirl Datura. There are more but I can't think of their names right now. There are some good images here at Seedman.com

Whatever it turns out to be, grab all the seeds you can.

The seed pods from the white flowering datura that I have grown are much more prickly than those.

What a beautiful flower Rosie!!

It doesn't have any white on the blooms, tho... They are solid deep purple- gorgeous! I'll sneak over today and see if any have bloomed!

Yikes! This just reminded me I forgot to send Patty some Double-Lavender Anget Trumpet seeds!

That sounds cool, Cindy!

The same neighbor that has this plant also has the Angel Trumpets- her peach one is AWESOME!!

plants 'n pots- you had a purple brug? I've never had a purple one...I want one! I have a pink one and an orange one...purple sounds really nice!

I was thinkin' the same thing, Alan!
I want a purple one!

ok, ok... I'm wrong! :rolleyes:

I THOUGHT it was a brug, but then again, I'm working on only 1 hour sleep for the past several days... no make that weeks! My daughter has got to get herself (and me) on a realistic schedule, and soon!!!

Aside all that... when I received the seeds in a trade from another website, another lifetime ago... the package did say brugmansia. I should have realized that the few flowers I actually had after 3 years of growing it, were pointed the wrong way.

I know now - thanks for all the input.