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My friend sent this email to me, asking if I'd ever heard of Daturas changing each year. I was wondering if any of you have had this happen with your plants?
"Last November my yellow datura plant produced a very pretty double or triple (triple, I think) yellow flower. I have some pics. It was the first time it had ever bloomed, altho it was 2 or 3 years old.
The flower was broken off the first day (wind? birds? critters?) ... so there was no seed pod. The second bud fell off without opening, presumably because the weather was too cold by the time it appeared.
A (single)white datura growing nearby had already finished blooming for the summer, so cross pollination would seem to be ruled out. (?)
This year, in early April, the first two [yellow datura] flowers were singles, not triples like last year's flowers. They were yellow, but very plain, not even as pretty as the ordinary white ones that grow like weeds here. The first flower to bloom faced upward, as daturas do ... but the second flower faced down, like a brug. (Have pics of these as well.) Strange.
I read somewhere that daturas can "revert" (how? to what??) and that's the only thing I can think of that might have happened.
Unless the few freezing nights "nipped" the top and somehow temporarily (?) changed it? It lost all lower leaves, but not the ones on the upper 1/4 of the plant during the winter. Those same upper leaves are still there."
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