A few weeks ago I was pulling weeds in the dirt patch (soon to be a beautiful oasis) in front of our house. I started on one end and worked my way towards the other. As I was about to cut down my final weed I stopped myself. This one looked different. There was a sweet fat leaf in the middle of some low vine thing. I left it thinking it would be pretty for a while till it got all big and scraggly like most weeds do. Good thing I left it because THIS is what it turned into:
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| This is the beautiful flower that greeted me this morning on what I almost ripped out as a weed! |
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| The flower starts out as a long tube. It's empty and looks like like a rolled up leaf. As time goes by the tube starts filling up until it finally blooms. |
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| This was taken on my iPhone before any flowers bloomed. I just couldn't believe how big and beautiful my little weed was getting! Now I wish I had taken pictures from day 1. |
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| This is the vine thing that is growing under the shade of the huge leaves. It grows like crab grass but has these pretty little leaves that almost look like succulents. I thought this one would get long and scraggly too but as it grows in diameter it also grows in fullness. |
So, obviously this is not a weed at all but a big beautiful plant! I can't wait to see if some sort of vegetable starts growing from the flower. Does anyone recognize it? Another thing to mention is that I haven't watered it yet at all. I put a hose to it this morning and am just hoping that it doesn't kill it! Who has ever heard of a leafy, flowery plant that doesn't need water? I will keep you posted on the progress of the flower!
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I guessed it was a trumpet flower, but when I typed that into google, the flower 'datura' came up. I'm pretty sure it's a match! Apparently it can be weed-like since they will come up everywhere, even when you don't want it to, but I agree with you that the flower is pretty awesome!
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