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kat7
Bloomingdale, NJ (Zone 6a)
April 15, 2001 2:43 PM Post #3661
| I must have planted this last year, but I have no idea what it is, and don't remember purchasing it. Its in bloom now in zone 6A. 
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daisy_chain
Norwich, Norfolk
United Kingdom
April 15, 2001 4:50 PM Post #67996
| Kat it looks like a HELLEBORUS to me. |
Semiplena
Fremont, CA
April 15, 2001 10:14 PM Post #68073
| It's a Helleborus x hybridus (Orientalis Hybrid).
Mike |
Patty
April 15, 2001 11:56 PM Post #68096
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Jerseyguy
Princeton, NJ (Zone 6a)
April 16, 2001 1:33 AM Post #68120
| Jimson weed is of the genus Datura of which there are many species. There are many hybrids out these days with single and double purple,yellow and white flowers. A relative of datura and often confused with it is Brugmansia. These can grow to almost treelike proportions in warm climates and have long drooping trumpet shaped blooms in white, pink, yellow, orange and all shades in between. Daturas and Brugmansias are not releated (not even closely) to helleborus. |
Patty
April 16, 2001 2:26 AM Post #68126
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kat7
Bloomingdale, NJ (Zone 6a)
April 16, 2001 11:03 AM Post #68145
| THANKS everybody!!
Kat |
Jerseyguy
Princeton, NJ (Zone 6a)
April 17, 2001 12:35 AM Post #68272
| Well Patty, I don't know the story of Jamestown weed per se, but I do know that if you smoke/eat jimson weed the results are less than desirable! |
Patty
April 17, 2001 12:45 AM Post #68275
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lantana
(Zone 7a)
April 17, 2001 10:25 PM Post #68559
| Hate to burst a bubble but I think Jimson weed got its name from the old Jamestown settlement...the inhabitants were starving to death and ate this...on arriving on the scene someone somewhere in a history book said they were a crazed bunch..."sitting in trees and yewling like monkeys..." or something like that. Somebody help me out here. |
Patty
April 17, 2001 10:42 PM Post #68565
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louisa
Troy, VA (Zone 7a)
April 18, 2001 12:31 PM Post #68712
| Just in case you don't know! The seeds of the hellebore can cause sores and blisters on fingers for some people, please wear gloves if you collect the seeds!! |
