Trumpet Flower

by AnnaJo Vahle

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Trumpet Flower

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AnnaJo Vahle

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Photograph - Photography

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Pink Brugmansia Angel Trumpet

This was growing in my mother's back yard in South Florida. It was a large plant, often full of heavy large flowers. The birds and the bees loved it. I used to sit by it and relax while enjoying the fragrance. Just as I photographed this blossom, a bee entered it.

Mom used to warn me that it was very dangerous. She thought that it might even be illegal. However, she insisted on giving me a cutting and had me plant one in my own backyard on Merritt Island, Florida. Both the original and the slip that she gave me thrived and bore many flowers over the years.

This is some of the information that I found in Wikipedia.

Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the 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, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus Datura. (Datura differ from Brugmansia in that they are herbaceous perennials, with erect or nodding, rather than pendulous, flowers - and usually spiny fruit).
Brugmansia species are amongst the most toxic of ornamental plants, containing tropane alkaloids of the type also responsible for the toxicity and deliriant effects of 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. They are therefore listed asExtinct in the Wild by the IUCN Red List, although they are popular ornamental plants and still exist wild outside their native range as introduced species. It is suspected that their extinction in the wild is due to the extinction of some animal which previously dispersed the seeds, with human cultivation having ensured the genus's continued survival.

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March 22nd, 2021

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