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.
What pollinates a Brugmansia? (Angel's Trumpet)?
I believe that it is a moth, although I have never gotten seeds on a Brugmansia in northern California, either.
Reply:self pollination may be the answer if u have the only one in ur nieghborhood
Reply: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
Reply: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.
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