Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Solanales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Brugmansia Pers.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brugmansia suaveolens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Sweet, Hort. Suburb. Lond. 41 (1818)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Datura suaveolens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Enum. Pl. [Willdenow] (1809)
Vernacular Name(s):
Night bells
 Description

Large puberulent, soft-wooded shrub to 2.5 m high. Petiole to c. 15 cm long. Lamina 5–20–(25) × 3–12 cm on adult shoots, larger on some vegetative shoots, ovate-oblong, entire, not sinuate, becoming glabrate; base often asymmetric; apex acute or mucronate. Fls pendent or inclined obliquely downwards, very fragrant at night; pedicels glabrate or glabrous. Calyx 8–12 cm long; lobes 5, subequal and not spathaceous, not splitting, acute. Corolla 27–33 cm long (excluding attenuate lobe apices 1–3 cm long), single, white; tube cylindric and scarcely widening in lower ?-1/2, otherwise funnelform. Filaments hairy in lower part; anthers 2.5–3 cm long. Fr. not seen.

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

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Jul.

 Bibliography
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42.
Steele, R.; Lowe, M. 2002–2006: Index. Subtropicals Index: 1–12.
Sweet, R. 1818: Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis . Ridgway, London.
Willdenow, C.L. von 1809: Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis. Berlin.
Weeds Key – interactive key to the weed species of New Zealand