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Brugmansia suaveolens
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Family:
SOLANACEAE
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Citation: Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & Presl, Rostl. 1: 45. 1823; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 308. 1988; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 319. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 313. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 275. 1998; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 568. 2009.
Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Enum. Pl. Hort. 227. 1809.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Angle's Trumpet
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Description:
Large shrubs or small trees, stems dense to sparsely pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire or shallowly lobed, to 20 x 15 cm, ovate, acute or acuminate, basally rounded or obtuse; petiole to 4-8 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary,inclined or pendulous ; pedicel 2-5 cm long. Calyx tubular, 5-10 cm long, 5- lobed, lobes 1.5-2 cm long, acute or obtuse. Corolla pink,17-25 cm long, the tube long and slender, the limb strongly plicate in bud, the lobes 5, cuspidate or acuminate. Stamens 5, the filaments slender, inserted on distal part of corolla tube; the anthers linear, basifixed, 25-35 mm long, longitudinally dehiscent, cohering into a cylindrical tube. Ovary 2-locular, glabrous, ovules numerous; style slender, elongate, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a 4-valved, indehiscent capsule, lanceolate-ellipsoid, unarmed; seeds numerous, 7-10 x 5-7 mm, compressed, obovoid-semicircular, coarsely rugose-tuberculate, comparatively large.
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Habit:
Shrub to Small Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-May
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plants
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Distribution:
Tropical and subtropical America, grown as a garden plant elsewhere.
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Rose, Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Sholayar, Manantody, Chandanathode, Devicolam
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