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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 / Wednesday, November 4, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Unexpected results from this Angel Trumpet cross

Last year I made a bunch of crosses involving Brugmansia Axel Rose in hopes that its variegation would be passed on either by genes or by a sport on a new seedling.  The last thing I expected was to find a seedling with blooms as bright as these.  Pictured below are blooms from a cross between brugmansia Mountain Treasure and Axel Rose.  The actual color was what I would call a cantaloupe orange and is much more intense than what is shown in this picture.  

mountaintreasurexaxelrose.jpgThe blooms are also quite large and really stand out.  I have hundreds of seedlings in bloom right now and when you gaze out to my growing area, this was the one seedling that grabs your attention right away.

mountaintreasurexaxelrose-2.jpg

I plan to cross it back to Axel Rose, Maya, and Langenbuscher Garten when the next set of blooms appear.




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