Tree Daturas Brugmansia

This plant is a shrub or small tree that could be grown as a houseplant/ interiorscape or in the landscape, as a cultivated woody or herbaceous shrub where hardy. A small tree growing 6-15 ft. in containers and 35 ft. in the ground. This plant is resistant to damage by deer and is slightly salt tolerant. The plant tolerates light frost and drought.

Brugmansia has a wide range of leaf forms and individual growth habits. It will flower continually through the growing season and self-pollinates. The plant must reach maturity before blooming which can take some time. The flower has a wide range of sizes, forms, shapes, and colors that can change drastically in appearance from one growing environment to the next.

Do not put them in full sun. They do best when there is a lot of room for roots to grow. Brugmansia grows best when using lots of ‘seasoned’ water (seasoned means it has sat in a bucket for at least 24 hours to let any chemicals evaporate), not tap water. If you see significant wilting, have pale foliage, and/or your plant seems stressed or unhappy, try less sun.

This tropical plant will over-winter in our area most years if given some protection in the form of leaves or mulch pilled around the base of the plant. They will die back to the ground but will usually come back from the ground each spring.

Once included as a section of the genus Datura L., Brugmansia is now recognized as generically distinct and its own separate genus.