Angel’s Trumpet by allie912

Angel’s Trumpet

Fast facts from Wikipedia:
Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. They are woody trees or shrubs, with pendulous flowers, and have no spines on their fruit. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name of angel's trumpets, adjacent to the nickname devil's trumpets of the closely related genus Datura....
Brugmansia species are among the most toxic of ornamental plants, containing tropane alkaloids of the type also responsible for the toxicity and deliriant effects of both jimsonweed and the infamous deadly nightshade. All seven species are known only in cultivation or as escapees from cultivation, and no wild plants have ever been confirmed.
The flowers are beautiful and I see them occasionally in Baton Rouge. I never knew they were toxic until I overheard some people on a garden tour in New Orleans saying that nurseries there no longer sold them.
June 21st, 2024  
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