Brugmansia is a class of flowering shrub or tree that grows in tropical to sub tropical areas in different parts of the world. Strangely enough, I came across my first specimen in the Calgary Zoo. Ever since then, I’ve been looking for them in nurseries across the city. This year I managed to purchase four different varieties and they’ve grown from 3 inches to 3 feet over the summer.
The flowers are huge and showy and the fragrance sweetens your garden in the dusk like a fresh perfume.
The one thing about this plant is that all parts of the Brugmansia is as poisonous as it is beautiful. It can be fatal if ingested and contact with the eye can actually cause pupil dilation. Some have actually tried a diluted concoction of the plant as a hallucinogen, often with deadly results.I couldn’t help but draw a parallel application with our tongue. It has the potential of uttering beautiful words that build and inspire yet it can be full of poison too!
People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:7, 8 
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