Accession Data:
Brugmansia versicolor Lagerh.
- Common Name: Angel's Trumpet
- Family: Solanaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Guayaquil Basin (Ecuador)
- Habitat: Frequently cultivated at low elevations throughout tropics
- Description: [syn. Datura mollis Saff.]
Small graceful tree, 8-15 feet; leaves oblong-elliptic, entire, glabrous to soft pubescent; flowers very large 12-20 inches long, pendulous, calyx spathe-like, rarely persistent on fruit; corolla typically white, turning apricot-peach with age, tube constricted well beyond the calyx, teeth long, flaring and recurnved; fruit fusiform, 6-12 inches long. There are no herbarium collections of any species of this genus made from confirmed wild plants. No botanist specialising in this genus has ever reported seeing wild plants of any species. (Verbal) Reports by non-specialist botanists of the occurrence of ‘wild’ plants are either misidentifications (usually of Datura), or misinterpretation of remnants or localised escapes from cultivation, usually along creeks and occurring by vegetative propagation from stem fragments. In all such instances investigated in Ecuador and Colombia, the plants are of the anthropogenic hybrid Brugmansia x candida (Hay et al. 2012: 172-177). It is quite clear that such instances do not represent self-sustaining sexually reproducing populations.3
The complete lack of evidence of fruit dispersal or spontaneous seedlings, combined with the presence of large numbers of fruits containing viable seed, suggests their dispersers are extinct. Hence, all the species should best be regarded as extinct in the wild.3
- USDA Zone: 9a-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 198500486
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1319 - NEOA: South Bench W
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 3 confirmed on 03-25-2025
- Restrictions:
- Poisonous Plant Parts - Not for Human Consumption
Tropane alkaloids. These plants may cause serious illness or death. If ingested, immediately call the Poison Control Center. - IUCN Red List: Endangered Species - Extinct in the Wild
- Poisonous Plant Parts - Not for Human Consumption
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: euasterid I
- Order: Solanales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Solanaceae
- SubFamily: Solanoideae
- Tribe: Datureae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- IUCN Redlist Extinct in the Wild
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Ecuador
References (external):
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, December 15, 2016.
- Brugmansia versicolor at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Thursday, December 15, 2016.
- Poisonous Plants at University of California. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.
data regenerated on Wed, 14 May 2025 10:30:06 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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