Category: Nature Photography
Posted: March 31, 2020



My Tropical Beauty

Pink Brugmansia Suaveolens

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Beautiful Flowers Photography Contest Entry 
Brugmansia suaveolens is a semi-woody shrub or small tree, growing up to 3-5 m (10 - 16 ft) tall, often with a many-branched trunk. The leaves are oval, to 25 cm (10 in) long by 15 cm (6 in) wide, and even larger when grown in the shade. The flowers, which tend to be white in colour, are remarkably beautiful and sweetly fragrant, about 24 - 32 cm (9 -13 in) long and shaped like trumpets. The corolla body is slightly recurved to 5 main points, but the very peaks in the true species are always curved outwards, never rolled back, and these peaks are short, only 1 - 2.5 cm (0.4 - 1.0 in) long. The flowers are usually white but may be yellow or pink and hang downward from fully pendulous up to nearly horizontal.

The Latin specific epithet suaveolens means "with a sweet fragrance."

I took this shot here at home during our "stay home" because of the Coronavirus. We have two of these trees on our property. They both do very well because our weather is continuously hot and humid year round. Both trees yield the pink flowers.

Camera - Canon EOS 60D
F-Stop - f/5.6
Exposure Time - 1/80 sec.
ISO 160
Focal Length - 62mm
Max Aperture - 4.875
No flash
No tripod
Post Type: Photography
Mixed Media: Minor | Shot, cropped, added a very small leaf in the corner to conceal part of background. Resized to meet FAR submission requirements.







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Pink Brugmansia Suaveolens by ABG Photography
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