"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
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See Plantfinder 1993/4 edition page 694. There it lists Brugmansia as a
reverse synonym for Datura.
See RHS Gardeners' Encyclopedia 1989 edition All the Brugmansia entries
simply refer you to Datura.
As I said in another note, if there are now two separated species, the
revision must have occured after 1994.

My understanding is that it did

Would that people did not make livings out of perpetrating continual
taxonomuic changes.

Taxonomic changes aren't made just for fun, you know! The point of
taxonomy is to try to encapsulate the evolutionary process, and as our
knowledge of what is most closely related to what increases, the
nomenclature changes to reflect that.

The taxonomists and the geneticists I knew used to be at loggerheads for a
fair fraction of the time.

[Franz Heymann]