This Datura’s bushy, broad-spreading habit is dressed in ovate, curvy-edged gray-green foliage sporting irregular ivory-colored splashes and streaks plus a soft downy finish. Headlined against the large-leafed variegated foil, enormous, upward-facing 7 in. long pearl-white trumpets, each unfurling in the evening and lasting barely a day, waft sweet bewitching scents from early summer ’til frost. Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, this seldom-offered exotic member of the Potato family can festoon a good-sized terra-cotta container on the patio, illuminate a moon garden and charm the pollinators. Winter protection at around 20 to 25 degrees and judicious pruning maintain its sophisticated evergreen visage.

Blooms July–October

Size: 2' 0" – 3' 0" high x 2-1/2' – 3-1/2' wide.

Hardy to zone 9.