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.
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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.
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At a glance
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.
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.
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
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 27 / 25–31 | 28 / 25–30 | 27 / 24–30 | 25 / 22–27 | 22 / 19–25 | 21 / 18–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 22 / 19–25 | 22 / 20–27 | 24 / 21–28 | 26 / 23–29 | 27 / 24–30 |
| Night °C | 20 / 17–23 | 20 / 18–23 | 19 / 17–23 | 17 / 15–21 | 14 / 11–19 | 13 / 10–18 | 12 / 9–17 | 13 / 10–17 | 14 / 11–18 | 16 / 13–20 | 18 / 15–21 | 19 / 16–22 |
| Rain mm | 223 / 125–353 | 182 / 123–286 | 159 / 110–270 | 128 / 81–188 | 119 / 47–167 | 100 / 23–163 | 107 / 18–165 | 85 / 25–131 | 139 / 62–184 | 158 / 110–215 | 170 / 124–250 | 187 / 119–340 |
| DLI | 37 / 34–41 | 37 / 33–39 | 32 / 29–34 | 26 / 23–31 | 21 / 19–27 | 18 / 15–24 | 20 / 17–25 | 25 / 21–30 | 28 / 24–34 | 33 / 29–37 | 37 / 33–40 | 37 / 33–43 |
| RH % | 65 / 61–69 | 65 / 62–69 | 65 / 61–70 | 64 / 61–69 | 64 / 61–67 | 64 / 60–66 | 63 / 58–66 | 62 / 56–66 | 63 / 57–67 | 64 / 59–69 | 64 / 60–68 | 64 / 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
Photographs
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.
Related
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.
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Brugmansia arborea Angel's Trumpet
Brugmansia aurea golden angel's-trumpet
Brugmansia insignis pink angel's-trumpet
Brugmansia sanguinea Red Angel's Trumpet History & registers
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