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 late 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




dachura ダチュラ Datura, trumpet flower
choosen asagao 朝鮮朝顔（ちょうせんあさがお）Korean morning glory
mandarage 曼荼羅華（まんだらげ）"Mandala flower"
zensoku tabako 喘息煙草（ぜんそくたばこ）"asthma tobacco"
kichigai nasu 気違茄子（きちがいなす）"crazy eggplant"


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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.
Click on the photo to see the enlargement.









© 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

quote
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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KENYA

trumpet plant
Solandra glandiflora
Family : Solanaceae

kigo for the cold, dry season

The Angel's Trumpet grows in many of the large gardens in the well-off suburbs of Nairobi, where it flowers in July, making it a kigo for the cold dry season.




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Moonflower, Angel's Trumpet
Datura suaveolens

A soft-wood, fast-growing shrub from 4-12 feet (1.3 - 4 metres) in height, it bears large, pendant, trumpet-shaped flowers. The white variety is very sweetly scented in the evening.

This is a common, but very poisonous garden plant. It is available in a variety of different colours, including white, yellow and pink, and in single and double forms.

~ John Karmali and Camerapix, 1988, The Beautiful Plants of Kenya


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trumpet plant--
the first buds appearing
in July cold

early July--
trumpet blossoms scatter
on the green lawn

Caleb Mutua, Kenya


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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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