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Brugmansia arborea

Brugmansia arborea

9.9
A South American shrub or small tree with large fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers
  • noun
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  • The garden's centerpiece was a magnificent Brugmansia arborea filled with fragrant white flowers.

Examples

  • Horticulturists often prize Brugmansia arborea for its showy, trumpet-shaped blooms.

  • She planted a Brugmansia arborea along the walkway to attract evening pollinators.

  • The Brugmansia arborea blooms beautifully in the summer.

  • Many gardeners love Brugmansia arborea for its stunning flowers.

  • Horticulturists often prize Brugmansia arborea for its showy, trumpet-shaped blooms.

  • She planted a Brugmansia arborea along the walkway to attract evening pollinators.

  • The garden's centerpiece was a magnificent Brugmansia arborea filled with fragrant white flowers.

Synonyms

Datura arborea
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A South American plant grown for its large sweet smelling trumpet shaped flowers

has the same cultivated fragrant trumpet-flower description despite a different name
Brugmansia suaveolens
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A South American plant with very large trumpet-shaped flowers that have a strong sweet smell at night

is similar but does not stress night-only fragrance
Datura suaveolens
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South American plant grown for large trumpet-shaped flowers that smell at night called angel's trumpet

is like this but does not emphasise nocturnal scent specifically
angel's trumpet
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A South American plant grown for gardens with large, fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers that are very poisonous if eaten

focuses on cultivation and fragrance rather than warning about toxicity
Brugmansia
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A plant with large, trumpet-shaped hanging flowers often called angel's trumpet

refers to a single cultivated shrub rather than the whole genus
maikoa
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9.9

A plant with large trumpet-shaped sweet-smelling flowers grown in gardens to make them look nice

is the specific shrub variety rather than a general garden name
Brugmansia sanguinea
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A South American shrub or small tree with large hanging orange-red flowers

describes the same form but without specifying red or pendulous flowers
red angel's trumpet
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A South American bush with large red flowers shaped like trumpets

matches ornamental cultivation but does not limit flower color to orange-red

Surface Forms

Morphology

Brugmansia + arborea

The binomial is compositionally built from a genus name (Brugmansia) and a descriptive epithet; if a learner recognises 'arborea' as related to 'arboreal'/'tree' they can derive 'tree-like Brugmansia' which matches the shrub/small tree meaning. However, the epithet is Latin and botanical nomenclature is specialist vocabulary not familiar to most B1 learners, so the relation is only partially accessible without prior exposure.

Etymology

Brugmansia arborea may come from a plant scientist's name, shown in Brugmansia, plus the Latin word arborea, which means 'tree-like'. So the name tells you this Brugmansia is the kind that grows like a small tree.