SolanaceaeSubfamily Browallioideae
Tribe Browallieae
Subfamily Browallioideae
Tribe Cestreae
Subfamily Nicotianoideae
Subfamily Petunioideae
Subfamily Schizanthoideae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Capsiceae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Datureae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Juanulloeae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Lycieae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Physaleae
Subfamily Solanoideae
Tribe Solaneae
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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl.) Bercht. & J. Presl.
- Common Name: Angels Trumpet
- Family: Solanaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: southeast Brazil
- Habitat: cultivated & naturalized at low elevations in tropics
- Description: [syn. Datura Gardneri Hook.f.]
Shrub or small tree, 6-15 feet, glabrous to minutely pubescent; leaves ovate to narrowly elliptic, entire; flowers large, 8-12 inches long, odding but not completely pendulous, calyx 2-5 toothed, slightly inflated, persistent and generally enclosing the fruit; corolla white, more campanulate than trumpet shaped, constricted for a short distance beyond the calyx, teeth 1.5 inches long or less, flaring but not recurved, anthers connivent; fruit fusiform, 4-6 inches long, somewhat rugose.
- Uses: Principal active biochemicals are the tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine, atropine, and scopolamine. The seeds of Brugmansia contain the highest concentration of alkaloids.
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  Accession Data:- Accession # 199200529
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1992
- Bench: 1322 - NEO:Atlantic Forest B
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-12-2011
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: euasterid I
- Order: Solanales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Solanaceae
- SubFamily: Solanoideae
- Tribe: Datureae
- SubTribe:
References:Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
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