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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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Sommer Gardens / Thursday, January 26, 2012 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

A Brugmansia with corkscrew teeth

I'm a big fan of wild corolla teeth.  When I spot a new Angel Trumpet seedling with long and crazy teeth, it almost always ends up in my watch zone.  Here is one I've been watching for the past year.  It's corkscrew tipped corolla teeth continue to grab my attention.

rubirosaxunknown.jpgThis seedling is the outcome of an unknown cross with Brugmansia Rubirosa as the pod parent.  The long lasting blooms have remained snow white in all seasons, which is a plus. 

rubirosaxunknown-2.jpgOften blooms on a new seedling will slowly change over the first few bloom cycles, but this seedling has kept its wild corkscrew tipped corolla teeth from the start.

rubirosaxunknown-3.jpgTo me this one is a keeper and is worthy of naming and registering.  I plan to chop it up for propagation next month and if the cuttings root well, it will earn itself a name.


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