Borrachero Trees in Elementary's The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz

Summary: The Elementary episode The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz Aug. 27, 2018, calls angel trumpet trees borrachero trees, "drunken" means to three deaths.

Brugmansia aurea 'Grand Marnier', Kew Gardens; Monday, Oct. 3, 2011: Emőke Dénes, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Angel trumpet trees, under the Spanglish nickname borrachero trees, assist in three of four anticipated deaths in the Elementary procedural drama series episode The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz Aug. 27, 2018.

Director Lucy Liu and writers Robert Doherty, Brandon Tanori, Jason Tracey and Kelly Wheeler broach Devil's Breath powder in Season 6's 18th episode, series' 138th overall. Angel trumpet trees carry their English common names from floral shapes and their Spanish from confused consciousness and mobility caused by tropane alkaloids such as scopolamine. Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) declares that "Now, the borrachero [tree] only grows in a narrow band in Colombia and Venezuela. It's highly illegal everywhere else."

Especially angel trumpet tree leaves and seeds exude scopolamine, whose dried, powdered Devil's Breath entered into drinks or exhaled onto faces eliminates the victims' free will.

Angel trumpet trees flourish as borrachero cultivars, hybrids and species in the Brugmansia genus formed in 1805 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (Feb. 1, 1761-Nov. 16, 1836).

Angel trumpet trees of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, southeast Brazil and Venezuela and same-genus borrachero trees of Colombia get 0.32- to 0.47-inch- (8- to 12-millimeter-) long seeds. They have, from each of their berry-like fruits, 100 to 300-plus black, fine-haired, somewhat cork-like or smooth-, somewhat kidney- or wedge-shaped, thick seeds that pulverize white. Pollinating bats and hummingbirds respectively initiate fruiting in six of seven Brugmansia species and in the only red-flowered angel trumpet trees, Brugmansia sanguinea ("Brugmans' blood-colored [flower]").

Seven species juggle oblong-oval 2.56- to 4.33-inch- (6.5- to 11-centimeter-), oval 2.16- to 2.76-inch- (5.5- to 7-centimeter-), spindle-shaped 5.51- to 13.78-inch- (14- to 35-centimeter-) long berries.

Borrachero trees, known as Brugmansias for Sebald Justinus Brugmans (March 24, 1763-July 22, 1819), sometimes keep floral calyxes (from the Greek κάλυξ, kálux, "husk") around fruits.

The Solanaceae (from the Latin sōlānum, "nightshade") family members locate 5.51- to 19.68-inch- (14- to 50-centimeter-) long flowers atop peduncles (from the Latin pedunculus, "[flower-bearing] foot-stalk"). Only forks merged atop 2.62- to 4.92-foot- (0.80- to 1.50-meter-) long stems maintain orange-, pink-, red-, white-, yellow-flowering 2.5- to 4-inch- (6.35- to 10.16-centimeter-) long peduncles. The flower base's calyx needs two to five different-sized sepals within which five same-sized stamens and 0.47- to 1.58-inch- (12- to 40-millimeter-) long anthers noticeably nestle.

Angel trumpet trees offer slightly, strongly or unnoticeably displeasing or pleasing fragrances when funnel- to tube-shaped flowers open to 3.93- to 13.78-inch (10- to 35-centimeter) diameters.

Angel trumpet and borrachero trees place alternate-positioned, fine-haired or hairless leaves atop 2.5- to 8-inch- (6.35- to 20.32-centimeter-) long pedicels (from Latin pedīculus, "[leaf-bearing] foot-stalk").

Elliptic to oval, pointed-tip, round-based, smooth-margined or tooth-edged leaves queue up 3.94- to 11.81-inch (10- to 30-centimeter) lengths and 1.58- to 7.09-inch (4- to 18-centimeter) widths. Ten- to 36.09-foot- (3.05- to 11-meter-) tall borracheros require United States Department of Agriculture hardiness zone 7b-like minimums above 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). The International Union for Conservation of Nature shows the spring- through fall-flowering evergreen extinct in native wildernesses and sustainable in fertile-soiled, semi-shaded, sunny, well-drained non-native wildernesses.

Brugmansia aurea ("Brugmans' golden [flower]"), taxonomized by Nils Gustaf von Lagerheim (Oct. 18, 1860-Jan. 2, 1926) in 1895, tackles Colombian-Ecuadorian and, what Sherlock targets, Colombian-Venezuelan borders.

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) consider the inspiration for seemingly accurate death predictions in Elementary tv series' The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz (season 6 episode 18): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Aug. 28, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Brugmansia aurea 'Grand Marnier,' Kew Gardens; Monday, Oct. 3, 2011: Emőke Dénes, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solanales_-_Brugmansia_×_candida_'Grand_Marnier'_4.jpg

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) consider the inspiration for seemingly accurate death predictions in Elementary tv series' The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz (season 6 episode 18): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Aug. 28, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/1178004198991356/

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