Peach Angel’s Trumpets

Another beautiful flower from the Adyar Theosophical Gardens. The Peach Angel’s Trumpets, Brugmansia versicolor belongs to the Solanaceae family and is closely related to Datura. These plants are native subtropical regions of South America. Brugmansia spp. are long-lived, woody trees or bushes, with pendulous, not erect, flowers, that have no spines on their fruit. Datura species are herbaceous bushes with erect (not pendulous) flowers, and most species have spines on their fruit.

The name Angel’s Trumpet refers to the large, very dramatic, pendulous trumpet-shaped flowers. Flowers are 5-toothed, funnel- shaped, up to 30 cm long with long, curved teeth. They change colour from a salmon-tinged white at the beginning to a peach colour at the end. Several cultivars and hybrids are popular as garden plants.