Brugmansia suaveolens (Willd.) Sweet

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Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Solanaceae > Brugmansia

Characteristics

Shrub or tree to 5 m tall, twigs glabrous or puberulent. Leaves ovate, apically acute or acuminate, basally rounded or obtuse, dimidiate, puberulent to pilose on both sides and especially along the veins; petioles 3-5 cm long, glabrate. Pedicels to 5 cm long, glabrate or pubescent. Flowers very large and showy; the calyx broadly tubular, inflated in bud and remaining so in flower, falling in entirety with the corolla, apically 5-lobed, the lobes equal, obtuse or acute, 2-3 cm long, glabrate or pubescent; corolla white, pink or yellowish, 25-30 cm long, pendant, tubiform, sometimes with a slight expansion about halfway along the limb, the tube less than 2/3 the diameter of the calyx tube (not nearly filling it), the limb sinuate lobed, ca. 13 cm across with five narrowly lanceolate teeth 10-15 mm long, pubescent outside glabrous within; the filaments geniculate
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or not, inserted '/3-1/2 of the way up the corolla (above the top of the calyx), pilose near the point of insertion, glabrous and sometimes drying dark above, ca. 40 mm free, the anthers 25-35 mm long, coherent into a narrow, cyclindrical tube 4-6 mm across, sometimes ultimately separating, dehiscing longitudinally, the sutures appearing pilose; ovary elongate-conical. Fruit not known in Panama.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 2.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 6-8
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use material medicinal poison social use
Edible -
Therapeutic use Asthma (flower), Asthma (leaf), Bites and stings (root), Asthma (unspecified), Intoxicant (unspecified), Pain (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Psychedelic (unspecified), Suppurative (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Fumitory (unspecified), Fatal (unspecified), Narcotic (unspecified), Hypertension (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified)
Human toxicity very strong toxic (aerial)
Animal toxicity very strong toxic (aerial)

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Brugmansia suaveolens unspecified picture
Brugmansia suaveolens unspecified picture

Distribution

Brugmansia suaveolens world distribution map, present in Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Bhutan, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, Fiji, Ghana, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Madagascar, Maldives, Mexico, Myanmar, Martinique, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Paraguay, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Brugmansia suaveolens threat status: Extinct in the Wild

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37443-2
WFO ID wfo-0001019783
COL ID 5WSR6
BDTFX ID 103179
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Brugmansia suaveolens Datura gardneri Pseudodatura suaveolens Datura arborea Datura suaveolens var. macrocalyx Brugmansia suaveolens