I live in NE Ohio, and have babied a "pet" Brugmansia for more than ten years. It reached 8 feet tall and stopped, thank goodness, for I have to drag the poor thing inside in October. What I've never been able to find out is: what pollinates those huge, white flowers? A bat? It's fragrant at night time. And whatever it is, it does not live in Ohio. I've never seen seeds. A note: a Brugmansia is NOT a Datura. The flowers are very simular, but the plants are different. Brugmansia flowers hang downward, while Datura flowers point upward.
2006-10-04 15:44:05 · 4 answers · asked by Smurfett 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I believe that it is a moth, although I have never gotten seeds on a Brugmansia in northern California, either.
2006-10-04 16:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by sonomanona 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sphinx or otherwise know as the humming bird moth may be your pollinator.I have seen these many times at night in my moon flowers
2006-10-09 05:03:27 · answer #2 · answered by daisydame357 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have grown them and seen them pollenated by moths and night flies. By the way, they are extremely poisonous. They are members of the Jemsin (sp?) family.
2006-10-09 07:36:06 · answer #3 · answered by Donald W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
self pollination may be the answer if u have the only one in ur nieghborhood
2006-10-06 06:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by artcherman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋