Trumpet Flower

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autumn deepens -
the soundless sound of
a pink trumpet







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Angel's Trumpet Flower エンセルス・トランペット
kigo for Summer

The species name is Datura candida, from the Solanaceae family (same as the potato). The plant contains the drug scopolamine, which is used in medicine to control motion-sickness.
A low-growing wild variant is called “sacred datura” or “loco weed,” which is still used by some southwest Native Americans as a hallucinogen in religious rituals. Cattle ranchers are careful to keep their livestock away from poisonous loco weed. Many people know the trumpet flower from a famous painting by Georgia O’Keeffe.

Billie Dee, USA

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In Japan, there are various names for this flower, which originates in South Asia. It was introduced to Japan as a medicinal plant during the Edo period. It might grow as much as 2 meters in hight and flowers from Summer to late autumn. From the leaves a medicine for asthma and coughing is produced.


Trumpet Flower, Kodachi Choosen Asagao
"Tree-like Korean Morning Glory"

コダチチョウセンアサガオ（学名：Brugmansia x candida ） 朝鮮朝顔
キダチチョウセンアサガオと似ており、花は白色または黄色が多く、ガクの先端は２～３深裂して角ばらない。一般にはガクの先端は見分けにくいため、いずれもエンゼルス・トランペットと呼ばれる。漢字で書くとキダチチョウセンアサガオもコダチチョウセンアサガオも「木立朝鮮朝顔」となる。最近では観賞用として広く植えられているが、これらも有毒である。
(C) Wikipedia


The flower is also called ：
Mandala Flower, mandarage 曼陀羅華.
Datura ダチュラ、ダチューラ
"tobacco for coughing" zensoku tabako　喘息煙草　ぜんそくたばこ
"eggplant that makes you crazy" kichigai nasu　気違茄子きちがいなす


More flowers in my neighborhood.
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© Photos by Gabi Greve, October 2006

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bee droning
from a wilted bloom
trumpet flower

George Steel , Shiki Archives 1997

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Worldwide

India
trumpet tree, golden yellow trumpet tree
Amapa amarilla (Mexico)
kigo for spring

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February is on its way out with Bangalore getting as hot as an oven! But the gift from nature to endure the heat is the golden yellow abundance of the Tabebuia chrysantha that is flowering all over the City, gladdening the tired eye.
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Also known as the Trumpet Tree, this Brazilian beauty has several species which range from northern Mexico to northern Argentina and central Venezuela. In Bangalore it starts amazing everyone with its turmeric yellow dazzle in the oddest places. Venkatappa Art Gallery has a grove of this gorgeous, ornamental tree which is useful for bees with its honey plants and humming birds love it as well. It will blossom only during February and March.
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Trumpet tree
the wind plays with
his flowers

Marita Schrader (Germany)
source : ww.asahi.com, 2005


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trumpet plant--
the first buds appearing
in July cold


Caleb, Kenya, July 2009



RELATED KIGO

Trumpet Creeper (noozenkazura 凌霄の花)
Chinese Trumpet Creeper



Poui Tree (Tabebuia Family)
kigo for the Tropical Rainy Season


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