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Hothouse flowers grow in rank profusion round every house, and tea-roses, fuchsias, geraniums fifteen feet high, Nile lilies, Chinese lantern plants, begonias, lantanas, hibiscus, passion- flowers, Cape jasmine, the hoya, the tuberose, the beautiful but overpoweringly sweet ginger plant, and a hundred others: while the whole district is overrun with the Datura brugmansia (?)

—The Hawaiian Archipelago

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a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including some plants often placed in the genus Datura, such as the angel's trumpets.

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includes some plants often placed in the genus Datura: angel's trumpets

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Hothouse flowers grow in rank profusion round every house, and tea-roses, fuchsias, geraniums fifteen feet high, Nile lilies, Chinese lantern plants, begonias, lantanas, hibiscus, passion- flowers, Cape jasmine, the hoya, the tuberose, the beautiful but overpoweringly sweet ginger plant, and a hundred others: while the whole district is overrun with the Datura brugmansia (?) — The Hawaiian Archipelago
brugmansia on 2008-11-18, 04: 16: 31 1 posts — Garden Voices
Chinese lantern plants, begonias, lantanas, hibiscus, passion - flowers, Cape jasmine, the hoya, the tuberose, the beautiful but overpoweringly sweet ginger plant, and a hundred others: while the whole district is overrun with the Datura brugmansia (?) here an arborescent shrub fourteen feet high, bearing seventy great trumpet - shaped white blossoms at a time, which at night vie with those of the night-blowing Cereus in filling the air with odours. — The Hawaiian Archipelago
1 TREE: Angel's trumpet, brugmansia suaveolens — chron.com Chronicle