Angel's Trumpet

Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of woody trees and shrubs in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, with large, fragrant, pendulous trumpet-shaped flowers in white, yellow, pink, orange, green or red, which give the angel's trumpets their name. Unlike the related Datura, nicknamed devil's trumpet, their fruit carries no spines. All seven species are known only in cultivation or as escapes from it, and no wild plant has been confirmed, so the IUCN Red List lists them as Extinct in the Wild. Indigenous cultures of South America have used them in medicines, mostly as external poultices, tinctures and ointments, and as an entheogen, a plant taken in religious and spiritual ceremonies. The Urarina use Brugmansia in their rituals. The plant is dangerous: every part is potentially poisonous, and its tropane alkaloids can cause delirium, hallucinations and death.