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Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J.Presl

Angel's tears, Brazil's white angel trumpet, Angel's tears, angel's-tears, angel's-trumpet

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Summary

Brugmansia suaveolens, Brazil's white angel trumpet, also known as angel's tears and snowy angel's trumpet, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to south eastern Brazil, but thought to be extinct in the wild. Like several other species of Brugmansia, it exists as an introduced species in areas outside its native range. It is a tender shrub or small tree with large semi-evergreen leaves and fragrant yellow or white trumpet-shaped flowers.

Text from Wikipedia, “Brugmansia suaveolens”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Brugmansia

Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the nightshade 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, adjacent to the nickname devil's trumpets of the closely related genus Datura.

Text from Wikipedia, “Brugmansia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Solanaceae
Described by
(Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J.Presl
Native to
Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast +1
Wild records
236 in range· 161 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Feb, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1757mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jan 223 mm (CHELSA)
Light
18–37DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1757 mm a year, wettest January at 223 mm, driest August at 85 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 37 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 2.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet; Brugmansia suaveolens (Kunth ex Willd.) G.Don; Datura arborea Mart.; Datura gardneri Hook.; Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. and 3 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (1346 mm of 1757 mm) takes 8 months, September to April. Mean temperature moves 7.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: March to October.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1757 mm a year, wettest January at 223 mm, driest August at 85 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1757 mm a year at the habitat, 1346 mm of it September to April. Wettest month January at 223 mm, driest August at 85 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1384 mm to 2304 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 37 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 2.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 2.4 °C, the absolute minimum -3.3 °C, 40 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 12.1 °C in July (across the envelope cells 9.1 °C to 16.8 °C), warmest day 27.6 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 2.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 21 °C in Jul to 28 °C in Feb; mean night from 12 °C in Jul to 20 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1757 mm of rain a year, most in Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 178 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -3.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 38.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost38.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-3.3° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 18–37RH 62–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 178 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C27 / 25–3128 / 25–3027 / 24–3025 / 22–2722 / 19–2521 / 18–2421 / 17–2422 / 19–2522 / 20–2724 / 21–2826 / 23–2927 / 24–30
Night °C20 / 17–2320 / 18–2319 / 17–2317 / 15–2114 / 11–1913 / 10–1812 / 9–1713 / 10–1714 / 11–1816 / 13–2018 / 15–2119 / 16–22
Rain mm223 / 125–353182 / 123–286159 / 110–270128 / 81–188119 / 47–167100 / 23–163107 / 18–16585 / 25–131139 / 62–184158 / 110–215170 / 124–250187 / 119–340
DLI37 / 34–4137 / 33–3932 / 29–3426 / 23–3121 / 19–2718 / 15–2420 / 17–2525 / 21–3028 / 24–3433 / 29–3737 / 33–4037 / 33–43
RH %65 / 61–6965 / 62–6965 / 61–7064 / 61–6964 / 61–6764 / 60–6663 / 58–6662 / 56–6663 / 57–6764 / 59–6964 / 60–6864 / 60–69

Each figure is the median across the 178 grid cells holding the 198 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2321:2463 (-26.075, -56.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 2.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 178 distinct grid cells holding the 198 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2321:2463 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -26.00_-56.875, lapse-corrected +70 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 244 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South· introduced: Morocco, Tunisia, Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Gambia, The, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaïre, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ascension, St.Helena, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Myanmar, Vietnam, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Norfolk Is., Kermadec Is., Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Cook Is., Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil North, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-25.427, -49.308 · in the densest population, 158 records (67% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 236 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 161 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 30 km away. 1107 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 38 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 236 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Ericson Cernawsky Igual, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) alessandradalia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (7).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Brugmansia suaveolens, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Sampling flower scent for chromatographic analysis
Elena E. Stashenko, Jairo René Martı́nez (2008) · Journal of Separation Science
Scopolamine in Brugmansia Suaveolens (Solanaceae): Defense, Allocation, Costs, and Induced Response
Marcos Nopper Alves, Adilson Sartoratto, José Roberto Trigo (2006) · Journal of Chemical Ecology
Pollen morphology of family Solanaceae and its taxonomic significance
Shomaila Ashfaq, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Shazia Sultana (2020) · Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Chemical Compounds, Pharmacological and Toxicological Activity of Brugmansia suaveolens: A Review
Vera L. Petricevich, David Osvaldo Salinas-Sánchez, Dante Avilés-Montes, César Sotelo-Leyva (2020) · Plants
Datura and Brugmansia plants related antimuscarinic toxicity: an analysis of poisoning cases reported to the Taiwan poison control center
Uyen Vy Doan, Ming-Ling Wu, Dong-Haur Phua, Bomar Mendez Rojas (2018) · Clinical Toxicology
Solanaceae na Serra Negra, Rio Preto, Minas Gerais
Eveline Aparecida Feliciano, Fátima Regina Gonçalves Salimena (2011) · Rodriguésia
Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and their utilization by the people of Soro District, Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia
Mulatu Hankiso, Zemede Asfaw, Bikila Warkineh, Abiy Abebe (2024) · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Brugmansia 4 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 157 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.