I’ve been in love with sacred datura (Datura wrightii) ever since I saw the famous Georgia O’Keeffe painting of it when I was 9 years old. The huge flowers are a luminous silvery white, the foliage is ...

If you want a plant that is dramatic in your flowerbeds this year, I recommend Datura. This plant is easy to grow from seed and will spread about 2 feet wide. It almost is as large as a small shrub.

Local city hiking reveals an urban sheen with its own allure amid arresting vistas of the sea and the town as well as fascinating flora. Imagine you might start out at Stevens Park and roam up onto ...

However, behavioral experiments with sacred datura (Datura wrightii), which were infested by the three-lined potato beetle Lema daturaphila, resulted in an unexpected surprise: Quite obviously, female ...

Q • I have a seed pod from last year’s datura plant. Could you please tell me if I should plant the entire seed ball or break it open and plant individual seeds from the ball? A • Break open the pod ...

A research team has found that gravid tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta) show an unusual preference for Datura plants that are already infested with leaf beetles when laying their eggs. The beetles and ...