Description
- Use: Indoor Plants Cultivating Difficulty Degree: Very Easy Classification: Novel Plant Full-bloom Period: Spring Flowerpot: Excluded Type: Courtyard Plant Location: Courtyard Function: Beautifying Size: Mini,Small,Medium,Large Climate: Subtropics Applicable Constellation: Sagittarius Style: Perennial Variety: Brugmansia
- Fruit Description: The seeds are enclosed in pods. The seed pods differ, too. They are removed to encourage more flowering or left to ripen if you wish to sow seed. Brugmansia seed pods can resemble okra, eggs or beans that yellow and soften on the plant when ripe.
- Botanical Name: Brugmansia suaveolens, Common Names: Tree Datura, Brazil's Angel Trumpet, Engelstrompeten, trompetero, floripondio, tomapende, toé, Trombeta, Canudo, Lírio, Zabumba, Saia-branca, Trombeteira Classification: Family: Solanaceae Genus: Brugmansia Species: B. suaveolens Plant type: semi-woody shrub or small tree with large and long shaped fragrant flowers. Origin: Native to subtropical regions of South America, along the Andes from Colombia to northern Chile, and also in southern Brazil. Mature Height: 2.4-3 m (8-10 ft) Hardiness: Zone 9 (-3 °C / 20 °F) and higher. Dies back completely to the ground after frost but new growth will appear in spring. Sun: Best in full sun. Tolerates some shade. Foliage: The leaves are oval, blue-green, smooth-textured oval and up to 25 cm (10 in) long by 15 cm (6 in) wide. Flowers: The flowers are remarkably beautiful and stong and sweetly fragrant, about 24-32 cm (9-13 in) long and shaped like trumpets.They hang downward from fully pendulous up to nearly horizontal. In this variety, the flowers are pink.
DWARF Brugmansia 'Cordata Red' Most brugmansias can grow as much as 8 to 10 feet tall over the course of a summer and you often have to wait for several months of growth before seeing any of the distinctive tubular flowers. The new Brugmansia ''Cordata Red' ' only grows 1 to 3 feet tall in a container and it starts blooming profusely by the time it's 12 inches tall. No more room for indoor plants? Cut brugmansias back heavily in the fall and store them in the basement. Just don't let them go below about 35 degrees - they are extremely frost sensitive. Like many other tropicals, brugmansias are heavy feeders. They want a rich diet of full sun, heavy doses of fertilizer and lots of water. In containers, they may need to be watered every day during hot spells.
