Brugmansia sanguinea (Ruiz & Pav.) D.Don

Hairy shrub 1–2–(4) m high. Petiole to c. 10 cm long, with dense, short, curly hairs. Lamina to c. 25 × 18 cm, usually much smaller on flowering shoots, ovate or narrow-ovate, sinuate to shallowly lobed, with dense short curly hairs, ± tomentose when young; lobes in 2–3 pairs, ovate with broad rounded sinuses; base cuneate, sometimes asymmetric; apex obtuse or acute. Fls pendent, not fragrant; pedicels tomentose. Calyx 7–10 cm long, 2-lobed and ± spathaceous, splitting down 1 side, puberulent; larger lobe with 2–3 acute teeth. Corolla single, either all yellow or partly so with upper tube and lobes orange-red, puberulent outside; tube 16–20 cm long, broad-cylindric, c. 1.5 cm wide at base; lobes 1.5–2.5 cm long, very narrowly triangular to subulate, reflexing, with broad sinus. Filaments tomentose in lower adnate part; anthers 1.2–1.4 cm long. Capsule to c. 9 cm long, ellipsoid, pendent, puberulent. Seed 8–12 mm long, rugose.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jan.–Dec.