Spotted in Griffith Park on a quick hike:
I’m thinking that this is a variety of bindweed (but see below*). I’m not sure though. Thoughts anyone? (Convolvulus sepium, that is.) Bindweed is a sort of wild morning glory, and this really does remind me of a morning glory, including some of the big ones that come up in the garden sometimes. A spectacularly lovely white version.
[*Update:- Happily, it was identified by commenter Spyder, who says:
It appears to be one of my favorite species--datura meteloides, the sacred thornapple. I have a picture on my refrigerator of my sister and myself (from forty years ago) looking at a large specimen on our property above Toganga Canyon. At the time, my sophmore year at UCLA, i hadn't learned much about it; i just really liked it and its aroma. A few years later, in grad school, i would become much more familiar with its role in american indian religious rituals, both in the north (datura) and the south (brugmansia) .
Thanks Spyder!]
-cvj
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- Painterly - 2007
It appears to be one of my favorite species–datura meteloides, the sacred thornapple. I have a picture on my refrigerator of my sister and myself (from forty years ago) looking at a large specimen on our property above Toganga Canyon. At the time, my sophmore year at UCLA, i hadn’t learned much about it; i just really liked it and its aroma. A few years later, in grad school, i would become much more familiar with its role in american indian religious rituals, both in the north (datura) and the south (brugmansia) .
Wow! Thanks! I was hoping someone would help out, ad I predicted that it would be you! Fantastic….. Will update.
-cvj
thnx, i was searching for it’s name for my art project on o’keefe