If you strive to create an interesting floral arrangement on your personal plot, take a look not at the exotic, requiring troublesome, painstaking care, but at a simple weed - an ordinary dope.
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Features and description of Datura vulgaris
This almost weed plant belongs to the vast Solanaceae family. There are 13 species that have different characteristics and growing requirements. Datura is very decorative, but it does not require troublesome care. The flowers of the bushes exude a spicy aroma, a little stupefying, where the name of the flower came from.
- This poisonous plant lives in Siberia, Ukraine and in the Crimea.
- Annual plant, a form of ordinary grass. Less commonly, tree-like bushes.
- Datura grass can reach a height of one and a half meters and create lush thickets.
- At night, the leaves smell very unpleasant, for which the flower is also called stinky dope. After caring for a flower, you must wash yourself, as there are many poisons in it.
- It blooms from June to autumn. After the flowers seed boxes ripen, each with up to 800 seeds.
Although the plant is extremely poisonous and can even cause poisoning, with skillful use it can be healing.
Varieties of plants
Datura, growing, like weeds, varieties of Talula is very widespread. In height reaches up to 120 cm. Grows in the form of a very large grass. Lilac-blue large flowers blooms in the evening. They fill the garden with a strong intoxicating aroma.
Very interesting, highly decorative form of Inermis. The variety grows rapidly and gives juicy foliage.The buds are snow-white. Blooms in the second half of summer.
"The White Knight" - varietal culture, reaching a meter in height. The flowers are large, double at the edges. The bush looks very decorative in the landscape of the garden.
The "Yellow Knight" blooms with large yellow flowers. Flowering lasts almost 3 months.
Preparation and landing rules
Although the plant is not fastidious, one should prepare for planting it so that in the summer the bush will please with magnificent flowering. Datura grows best on sunny areas protected from the winds. Since the bush is poisonous, it is usually planted remotely from home.
It is advisable that the selected area has a breathable, light, nutritious soil, although dope can be planted even on depleted ground. It is possible to add organic matter in preparing the plot.
Bushes are planted in late May or even in early summer, when the soil warms up well. Seeds can be sown immediately in the soil or seedlings purchased.
Plants grown in soil through seedlings bloom much faster.
- The site prepared, dug up and fertilized with organic matter before landing should be loosened again.
- Landing holes are dug at least in increments of a meter, since the dope is powerful, spreading.
- Drainage is placed at the bottom of the landing pit to prevent stagnation of water near the roots. Crushed stone or sand will do.
- Before planting, the sprouts are spilled plentifully, and then each seedling is carefully placed in the hole and sprinkled with soil, compacted and watered.
Datura Care
In order for the bush to bloom magnificently, it must be watered very abundantly. In the summer they irrigate every two days, and in a particularly sultry period, watering is necessary every day. It is advisable to use standing water.
Bushes fertilize once a week. If datura is planted on compost soil, mineral compounds are used. If the plant grows in garden soil, then minerals and organic matter should be alternated.
When planting on a site with acidified soil, the last time in a season is lime, adding lime milk (gram per liter) to the water for irrigation.
Pruning is an important part of care. A haircut will help form a bush and increase the period and splendor of flowering. Remove all faded buds. If it is necessary to collect seeds, wilted flowers are left, choosing the largest.
A natural phenomenon for this weed is self seeding. But not the fact that tiny seeds all winter in the ground. To collect the seeds, the box is wrapped in gauze. You can even wear regular nylon tights.
As a rule, the planting material that was collected from their plants has a higher germination than purchased.
Common breeding methods
The most popular method for breeding a datura plant is to sow seeds. But still flower growers use cuttings.
This requires:
- In September, cut segments to 10 cm.
- Break the lower leaves from the twigs.
- Root cuttings can be directly in the ground.
- In winter, the branches should survive in the house, and in the spring they can already be planted in the garden.
Seeds are sown in spring directly in the open ground or at the end of winter for seedlings at room conditions. Take a nutritious soil mixture and sow planting material on it, tighten the container with a film. The grown seedlings can be evicted to a flowerbed in May.
The use of poisonous flower, application in folk medicine
Datura stramonium is actively used in quackery. Healing raw materials are seeds and other parts of the plant. They collect it only during the flowering period, until frost sets in. Dried in air.
Datura has the following healing qualities:
- has an antispasmodic effect;
- mild antitussive;
- bright anti-inflammatory;
- strong painkiller.
Datura can also have a narcotic effect, therefore it should be used in traditional medicine with extreme caution.
The plant contains many alkaloids (atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine), as well as carotene, tannins and organic acids.
- Apply tinctures, decoctions and other drugs based on datura herb for bronchial asthma, convulsive cough, some gastrointestinal diseases.
- Means also help with severe nervous strain, as well as speech and sexual excitability disorders.
- Healing lotions with bruises, sprains are made from datura grass.
- Datura is an excellent remedy for toothache.
- With eczema, the skin is also lubricated with compounds based on it.
The danger of dope ordinary
Datura is very poisonous, and after working with it, you must definitely wash and thoroughly wash yourself. All work should only be done with protective gloves.
Herb-based drugs are strictly contraindicated for pregnant, lactating, with glaucoma. You should not take funds with intraocular pressure, as well as children.
Exposure to dope poisons can be unpredictable. Take funds from this herb should only be under the supervision of a doctor.
Plant Precautions
This plant can be grown only under the strict observance of safety measures. You can not inhale the sweet, but poisonous aroma, and even more so try any parts of the plant. In no case should you exceed the dosage of drugs.
The first symptoms of poisoning are pupil dilatation, blue lips, impaired heart function, shortness of breath and the appearance of swelling. An elevated temperature may also be noted.
A large dose of toxic substances can cause a loss of perception of reality and even hallucinations. In case of signs of poisoning, you need to call an ambulance. Datura herb poisons can lead to death.
Work should only be done with gloves on. It is advisable to wear a mask. You can not stay close to the plant for a long time.
Datura is a very beautiful, strong plant, but also very dangerous.
