Brugmansia versicolor Lagerheim, Solanaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Threat only at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

English: peach angel's-trumpet

Spanish: campana

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Evergreen small tree up to 4.5 m high.  Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptical, glabrous to pubescent, acuminate, with lengthwise petioles, up to 60 cm long.  Flowers hermaphrodite, large, pendulous, funnel-shaped.  Spathe-like calyx, up to 17 cm long, with one sole tooth ending in a long tip.  Corolla 5-toothed, funnel-shaped, up to 30 cm long with long, curved teeth; it changes colour from a salmon-tinged white at the beginning to a peach colour at the end.  Fruits in berries, fusiform, up to 21 cm long" (Pérez, n.d.; p. 22).

Habitat/ecology:  "Tolerates most soils.  Lives in strong sun as well as in shade" (Pérez, n.d.; p. 22).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Ecuador (GRIN)

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands) Santa Cruz Group	Santa Cruz Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Charles Darwin Research Station (2005)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)

Comments:  Reported as possibly an invasive plant in the Galápagos Islands per Charles Darwin Research Station.

Additional information:  Additional online information about Brugmansia versicolor is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Taxonomic information about Brugmansia versicolor may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Charles Darwin Research Station. 2005. CDRS Herbarium records.

Pérez, Juan-Alberto Rodríguez. 2003. Exotic flora of the Canary Islands. Editorial Everest, S.A. 192 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2007. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.