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Brugmansia aurea
Also called Yellow Angel's Trumpet
Golden angel's trumpet is a shrubby or small tree from the Andes, now extinct in the wild, grown for its large, fragrant, pendant yellow trumpet flowers. It is a widely cultivated ornamental that needs frost protection and steady moisture.
Brugmansia aurea, also known as golden angel's trumpet, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae that was native to Ecuador and Colombia, but is now Extinct in the Wild. Despite being declared extinct in its native range, Brugmansia aurea is a popular ornamental and is widely cultivated, like the other members of its genus.
Brugmansia aurea is cultivated as an ornamental plant. Several cultivars exist, notably 'Grand Marnier' with peach-coloured flowers. As with other members of its genus, it cannot handle temperatures below 5 °C (41 °F), but in colder climates can be placed outside in a sheltered spot during the summer months.
It was native to the Andes from south-central Ecuador to northeast Colombia at elevations of 2000–3000 m above sea level. It grew mainly in Andean cloud forests and damp ravines with a subtropical mountainous climate, characterised by high humidity, moderate temperatures and frequent fog.
It is used as a hallucinogen. Its most potent cultivar is Culebra Borrachero, which has a high concentration of the psychoactive scopolamine. It has also been used as a truth serum. Borrachero loosely translates to "get-you-drunk", and scopolamine is also known as Devil's Breath and burundanga.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
