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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 / Monday, November 23, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Another Angel Trumpet that forgot who its parents were

In today's new Angel Trumpet seedling there is no resemblance to to either one of the parents.  It is a cross between brugmansia Pink Smitty x The Chief.  I'm sure this look is linked back to Pink Smitty as I have seen numerous single pink Aurea style blooms come out of the many Pink Smitty crosses I am growing.  The blooms on this brugmansia seedling are waxy in appearance, thick textured and long lasting.  I can't remember what the fragrance was like.


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A couple of months ago I posted comments and photos of another seedling from the cross of brugmansia Pink Smitty x The Chief.  That one was sort of a challenged double with a much darker color.  I do not recall if that one has bloomed again since that original post.  I know I still have a couple more seedlings from this cross yet to bloom.






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