Gary,difficult to say from the photo (verrry nice!), but from your description I would say it was an Angels Trumpet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia One of the few plants that is packed full of poisons in all of its parts.Datura is closely related and appears often in the books by Carlos Castenada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaturaMakes some pretty grim reading Cheers Douglas On 23.07.2010 09:08, Gary Dalton wrote:
I found this flower at Mission San Luis Obispo. You can't tell from this close-up, but the blossom is shaped like a long, slender trumpet, up to 12 inches in length. In bloom, many of these trumpets hang from the bush... Stilll don't know the name of the plant...http://filmuser3.smugmug.com/Flowers/Flowers/bell-flower-550A/922455565_kvNPS-L.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy. <http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4>
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