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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb.
&Bonpl.exWilld.) Bercht.&Presl, Rostl
Synonym
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Datura albidoflava
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Family
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Solanaceae
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Local name
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English - Angle's
Trumpet
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Flowering and fruiting period
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August-May
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Distribution
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Tropical and
subtropical America, grown as a garden plant elsewhere.
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plants
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Brugmansia suaveolens is a popular
garden plant. It is grown for its showy and attractive bloom. It can be
smoked, eaten, drunk as a tea, or taken as an enema.
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Key
Botanical Characters :
Large shrubs or small
trees, stems dense to sparsely pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire or
shallowly lobed, to 20 x 15 cm, ovate, acute or acuminate, basally rounded or
obtuse; petiole to 4-8 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary,inclined or
pendulous ; pedicel 2-5 cm long. Calyx tubular, 5-10 cm long, 5- lobed, lobes
1.5-2 cm long, acute or obtuse. Corolla pink,17-25 cm long, the tube long and
slender, the limb strongly plicate in bud, the lobes 5, cuspidate or
acuminate. Stamens 5, the filaments slender, inserted on distal part of
corolla tube; the anthers linear, basifixed, 25-35 mm long, longitudinally
dehiscent, cohering into a cylindrical tube. Ovary 2-locular, glabrous, ovules
numerous; style slender, elongate, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a 4-valved,
indehiscent capsule, lanceolate-ellipsoid, unarmed; seeds numerous,
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