Common name: Peach Angel's Trumpet, Salmon Angel's Trumpet
Botanical name: Brugmansia versicolor Family: Solanaceae (Potato family) Synonyms: Datura mollis
Peach Angel's Trumpet is a shrub or a an evergreen small tree up to 4.5 m
tall. Alternately arranged leaves are oblong-elliptical, smooth to
velvety, with tapering tip, up to 60 cm long. Flowers are large,
pendulous, funnel-shaped. Spathe-like sepals cup is up to 17 cm long, with
one sole tooth ending in a long tip. Flowers are 5-toothed, funnel-
shaped, up to 30 cm long with long, curved teeth. They change color from a
salmon-tinged white at the beginning to a peach colour at the end. Fruits
are berries, up to 21 cm long. Peach Angel's Trumpet is native to South
America.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed at Amboli, Maharashtra. |
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