Datura metel (Angel's Trumpet)

40 (90)cm, Angel's Trumpet or Indian Thorn Apple is a fast growing annual from India to China. It has showy purplish-white flower trumpets on purplish stalks and sometimes even purplish tinged leaves and ovoid seed capsules with short thick spines. Easily cultivated in any rich, well drained substrate in a sunny spot. Sow under glass in mid spring at a minimum of some 20°C. Keep pots in a sunny spot and transplant sedlings to the final spot in the garden after the last freezing nights from end of spring to mid summer. Seeds are from a filled form with narrow flower trumpets. Note: All parts are poisenous if ingested ! VI-VIII.
20 seeds per package.