Brugmansia is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the family Solanaceae. Their large, fragrant flowers give them their common name Angel’s Trumpets, a name sometimes used for the closely related genus Datura. Brugmansia are woody trees or shrubs, with pendulous, not erect, flowers, that have no spines on their fruit. Datura species are herbaceous bushes with erect (not pendulous) flowers, and most have spines on their fruit. Brugmansia are native to tropical regions of South America, along the Andes from Venezuela to northern Chile, and also in south-eastern Brazil. They are grown as ornamental container plants world-wide, and have become naturalized in isolated tropical areas around the globe, including within North America, Africa, Australia, and Asia.

Brugmansia sanguinea, commonly known as the Red Angel’s Trumpet, is a flowering, evergreen small tree or shrub reaching up to 10m in height, native to the Andes mountains from Colombia to northern Chile in South America. The bright red flowers bloom in abundance from late summer to autumn and attract nectar feeding birds like hummingbirds. Best grown in full sun with afternoon shade in hot climates. Ideal for beds, borders, pots and container planting. An organically rich, moist, well-drained soil is preferable. Ethnobotanically, it is said to have been cultivated and used as an entheogen for shamanic purposes by the South American Natives for centuries – possibly even millennia.