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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 / Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

This Angel Trumpet is a mess, but I like it!

It is not unusual for an Angel Trumpet plant to produce a shredded bloom from time to time but here's a Brugmansia seedling that has thrown two consecutive shredded blooms.  This has me hoping that this seedling will always be shredded.

missbhavenxseminolemoon.jpgThe seedling is a cross of Brugmansia Miss B Haven x Seminole Moon.  Too bad Seminole Moon's color did not carry through.

missbhavenxseminolemoon-2.jpgI already have three shredded brugmansia cultivars in my collection; 'Shredded White', 'Shredded Pink', and 'Fantasma'.  The blooms on this seedling were much larger that those three and were also thicker in texture. 

missbhavenxseminolemoon-3.jpg
The next few blooms should tell me if these blooms were was just an anomaly, or if shredded blooms are going to be the norm for this seedling. I'm really hoping it stays shredded!
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