Gypsy Ballerina
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Gypsy Ballerina
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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- Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums Group - Your Favorite Works, 08/29/2013
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- Excellent Self Taught Artists Group, 08/21/2013
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I took this interesting looking flower at the street in Oshawa. It looks so much like a "Gypsy Ballerina" with her purple dress. Don't underestimate this nocturnal beauty as it is another "Angel's Trumpet" with its ability to harm a person. I guess that's why I called it "Gypsy Ballerina" that can cast a spell on you if you are not handle them properly.
Datura 'Purple Ballerina' , also known as "angel's trumpet" is a marvelously fragrant flowering herb with upward-facing blooms that resemble a dancer's costume. These compact plants are perfect for containers or as a scene-stealer in the garden. Flowers open in the evening and close again in the morning. Beginning in early summer and continuing until the fall weather sets in, the plant is covered with magnificent blooms, so fragrant that a single plant perfumes the garden! Large, very attractive fruits follow the blooms and should be cut for splendid accents to fresh and dried arrangements.
Considered one of the top traditional herbs used in Chinese medicine, this variety of Datura is very similar to the 'Evening Fragrance' variety both in habit and characteristics, as both types of the plant induce sever hallucinogenic episodes. Though highly poisonous because of the high levels of tropane alkaloids within the plant, 'Purple Ballerina''s dark violet blooms can be dried and smoked as an herbal medicinal treatment for asthma. Dosages vary and can result in flushed skin, headaches, delirium, convulsions, coma and death.
A beautiful aromatic addition to any night garden, this nocturnal beauty is a must have for its showy blooms!
Edited from "The Growers Exchange" online
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August 21st, 2013
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