Habit: Brugmansia suaveolens grows as a large shrub to 5 m in height. The simple leaves are arranged alternately, to 25 cm in length, glabrous to short pubescent, ovate with an acute/acuminate leaf apex and an entire, undulate, or toothed leaf margin.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic, pendulant flowers are terminal, solitary or in few flowered clusters. The calyx has 5, fused into a spathe-like tube with a notch on one side, greenish sepals. The corolla has 5 fused, orange/cream/white/yellow petals to 30 cm in length. The tips of the corolla lobes reflexed/recurved outward with an aristate tip There are 5 stamens with yellow anthers adnate to the corolla. The ovary is half inferior with 4 locules and numerous seeds. The fruit is an unarmed elongate capsule at maturity.
Habitat: Brugmansia suaveolens grows in the Bahamas in Human Altered environments (yards and gardens).
Distribution: Brugmansia suaveolens is not native to the Lucayan Archipelago. It is native to southern Brazil. It is now grown globally in the tropics and subtropics.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Brugmansia suaveolens is not known to be used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.
Brugmansia suaveolens is EXTREMELY TOXIC. Care should be taken when handling the plant and no portion of the plant should ever be ingested.
It is grown ornamentally for its large, showy, pendulant flowers.