- The Geauga Master Gardeners took a field trip recently to a member’s home for a workshop on brugmansias. The exotic tropical flowering plant is also known as an angle trumpet because of its ...

Every garden needs a showoff — a plant so ostentatious that it demands to be stared at and discussed. Such a diva can be found in Brugmansia, commonly called angel’s trumpet. Native to South America, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There are times when, confronted by several similar plants, I’m puzzled as to their exact botanical names. Such was the case with Datura and Brugmansia. One key to solving this ...

A friend of mine and reader asked me a question about this beautiful flowering shrub she saw on the edge of Jeromesville a few years ago. The plant was growing in a large pot and had the biggest, ...

The first time I saw an angels' trumpet flower was in the early 1990s. It was growing over a fence in Berkeley. I stopped my bike and just looked at it for a few minutes because I couldn't identify it ...

Brugmansia that floral exhibitionist also known as angel’s trumpet, has much to recommend, including rapid growth, handsome foliage and gloriously colored flowers. It is the nocturnal perfume, however ...

A. Datura produces large, trumpet-shaped blooms similar to those in the genus Brugmansia. Both datura and brugmansia flowers are commonly called angel trumpets, and both are generally root-hardy here, ...

Brugmansia, known among people of South America as the “tree of the evil eagle,” is a potent medicinal and psychoactive plant that has played a prominent role in South American Andean and Amazonian ...

Editor -- I am so pleased that Erik Ellestad wrote to shed light on the datura/brugmansia conundrum (Letters, Oct. 23). He is correct on all accounts. One aspect that will make the identification ...

Brugmansia sanguinea, or red angel's trumpet, has angelic flowers but the leaves taste dreadful. Every part of the plant is poisonous and that terrible taste of the leaves stops animals from browsing ...

Angel’s Trumpet or Brugmansia is a tender shrub or a small tropical tree with large semi-evergreen leaves in the family Solanaceae (potato/ tomato/ eggplant) that produces fragrant, trumpet-shaped, ...