When someone says "Angel Trumpet" to me, my first question is "are you talking about brugmansia or datura?". I even had someone recently ask me about my datura plants. I don't grow datura....They were asking about my brugs. My guess is (and I don't know this person and have never purchased from her), that she's simply using the common names to try and sell her seeds. The majority of people out there refer to both brugmansia and datura as "angel trumpets". I've never heard "moonflower", but apparntly it's another common name for datura. Rsieminski, I am almost positive that your intent of this post was not to flame this seller, but do you guys realize how many people make their entire incomes selling on Ebay? I know it's well over 500,000, and a post like this could very well hurt someone in more ways than you know...

Well.... Looks like the majority of them are a very pale lilac with a light purple throat but I could have sworn that the first one was white with a light purple throat... ( I'm letting a seed pod develop on that one! ) It sure is an interesting flower... They start to open around 5 PM then stay open till about 8 AM... Even the small, 5 or 6 inches high, plants are developing flower buds... When they're open they resemble swirly five pointed stars... Every last one of them stands straight up at the top of the plant... I half expected them to be much larger though... These are only about 2 inches across and about four inches long ( not counting the green )... But then again they may be smaller because they don't get full sun... As for the scent of the flowers... Well it's hard to say, my sniffer isn't working properly ( LOL )... Although I don't think anything can top the scent of an Aphrodite Hosta in full bloom... Rita

Contact me if you would like seeds of the Moon Flower. In my experience here in zone 5 I planted a few maybe 5 seeds one spring in the ground about 6 years ago and have had moon flowers in various places in my yard ever since. They are annuals here but reseed. They fasinated me because you can actually watch the rather large fragrant flower bloom over a matter of about 20 minutes. It unfolds and is about 3-5 inches across and probably 5 inches or so long. The main plant I should say the one that is the largest this year is next to my compost pile (go figure) and the plant is about 3 feet tall by 5 feet wide with numerous flowers that point somewhat upward the weight of the flower pulls it down alittle. If anyone is interested in seeds I will send for a sase. Email me. As stated earlier they are poisonous.

Tried the damned things twice myself. Huge disappointment. We never get enough heat to make them grow fast enough to flower. And don't make the mistake of giving them fertilizer, or all you will ever see are leaves. Just another of the highly over-rated plants in my estimation. Turf the suckers and grow brugmansia, which smells better and needs cool nights to trigger flowering.