Double-flower power:Datura in Daehanminguk

I received a relocation allowance from my employer this afternoon, so I went to buy a houseplant and some tea supplies at the local street market.

Didn't get much else beside a plant, though, because the first thing I saw was a purple-hued Datura sitting in front of a corner plantstand. My Lady Friend asked me what kind it was, and after a few seconds of "It's... uh...," I finally said "I don't know."

As astounded and intrigued as I was, I hesitated to buy the plant. We live in a high-rise, it's mid-September, and [at the time of original writing --Ed.]we're in between typhoons: so when and how might a pollinator find its way to these flowers? That's when the proprietor stepped close and pulled back some leaves to show us a nascent seed pod.

"That's it! Sold!" my Lady Friend laughed as I bent down to pick up the pot.

The sweet irony of this episode is that I went to that shop in order to buy some soil in which to grow some of the Datura seeds that just dried.

Plants of the Gods indicates that this is D. stramonium vartatula, which is native to the Himalayas. I figured that the plant I bought was imported from South Asia, so this ID supported that notion. However, as I looked over examples on the 'net (many of which seem to be mislabeled), I noticed a double-flowered, usually purple variety simply called double Datura. Don't know how that well that jives with the ABADS ID for D. stramonium var. tatula form bernhardtii. But that's for a later time...

Update, Sept. 25:
Now I'm thinking this plant might be a variant of D. inoxia, but I still haven't received a reply from ABADS about classification. What's really important to note, however, is that the plant has been pollinated. There are two new pods growing in place of the flowers that are seen in this post. As I've told friends, this is due either to the attention of the two or three insects that were in the apartment, or my improvised pollination with a cotton swab.