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Brugmansia sanguinea

Species of plant

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Brugmansia sanguinea, the red angel's trumpet, is a species of South American flowering shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Brugmansia in tribe Datureae of subfamily Solanoideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It has been cultivated and used as an entheogen for shamanic purposes by the South American Natives for centuries - possibly even millennia.

Description

Brugmansia sanguinea is a small tree reaching up to 10 m in height. The pendent, tubular/trumpet-shaped flowers come in shades of brilliant red, yellow, orange and green.

Distribution

B. sanguinea is endemic to the Andes mountains from Colombia to northern Chile at elevations from 2000 to.

Toxicity

Main article: Brugmansia#Toxicity

All parts of Brugmansia sanguinea are poisonous. Different parts of the plant contain tropane alkaloids in varying proportions. Alkaloid content in the flowers is mainly atropine with only traces of scopolamine (hyoscine). The seeds of B. sanguinea contain approximately 0.17% alkaloids by mass, of which 78% are scopolomine.

Gallery

File:Brugmansia bicolor.jpg|1853 illustration File:Sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) on red angel's trumpet (Brugmansia sanguinea) Cundinamarca.jpg|Pollination by the sword-billed hummingbird File:Brugmansia sanguinea (7161593093).jpg File:Madeira, Palheiro Gardens - Brugmansia sanguinea (westliches Südamerika) IMG 2234.JPG File:Brugmansia sanguinea bud.jpg File:Brugmansia sanguinea flower translucency.jpg

References

Hay, A.. (2014). "''Brugmansia sanguinea''".
. (n.d.). ["Brugmansia sanguinea (Ruiz & Pav.) D.Don"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:814612-1). *The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew*.
. (n.d.). ["Brugmansia sanguinea (Ruiz & Pav.) D.Don"](https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/NFDD). *Species 2000*.
Hoffmann, Albert; Schultes Richard Evans; Ratsch, Christian; Plants of the Gods, pp. 33
(2011). "The European Garden Flora: Volume 5, Dicotyledons: Boraginaceae to Compositae". Cambridge University Press.
(2002). "Brugmansia and Datura: Angel's Trumpets and Thorn Apples". Firefly Books.
Pratt, Christina. (2007). "An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 1". The Rosen Publishing Group.
"Plants of the Gods".

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