Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including some plants often placed in the genus Datura, such as the angel's trumpets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets
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Examples
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I have stored them with the pelargoniums, the tender Viola hederacea, my salvias and the brugmansia and they will be fine in the low light levels if they are kept in a state of semi-dormancy.
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When Morris gets tired of wandering, he can come back to the front porch and rest under the beautiful blooms of a 'Miner's Claim' brugmansia.
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I added a 'Charles Grimaldi' brugmansia (angel's trumpet - it'll have huge drooping yellow-orange flowers later in the summer), 'Prince' pennisetum (should make dark swords to 5 '), and a few trailing lavender lantanas.
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I grew a yellow brugmansia like that for a couple of years.
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I walked up their driveway with camera in hand to inquire after their health and ask to take some photos of the brugmansia.
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Glorious brugmansia photos, and I love the changing ehader display, too.
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A brugmansia in a container is a huge thing to deal with!
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From gardeners.com: Woody-stemmed tropicals, such as jasmine, brugmansia, tibouchina and bananas, should be brought indoors before the first frost.
Pragmatic Solutions Field Notes 2007
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Such control is due to the fact that brugmansia shrubs tend to mutate spontaneously and rapidly and that these mutations can be easily propagated by sticking a piece of stem in moist earth.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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I, however, have chosen to concentrate my attentions upon a specific source of belladonna: the tree datura, specifically the subgenus brugmansia, because of its unique vegetative properties.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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