Sommer Gardens / Thursday, December 1, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings Wow, a giant 8 point golden Angel Trumpet! With cooler weather settling in, more and more of my Angel Trumpet seedlings are blooming for the first time. Every couple of days I come across one that just wows me. Here's one that really caught my eye this week. It is from a cross I made between Brugmansia Jazzy and Brugmansia America. What is really cool about these blooms is that both have eight points (corolla teeth). Normally a corolla skirt will have five teeth, and sometimes 6. Having 8 teeth on both open blooms is rather unusual. I was hoping the blooms would open more, but I think this is as wide as they are going to open right now. It could be because I harvested the pollen out of the blooms and then pollinated both with Brugmansia Marshmallow Sunset before the blooms started to open. I have noticed that sometimes when you pollinate a bloom early and harvest its pollen, the bloom never opens as full as it would it you lefty it untouched.I've already used up the pollen from these blooms to pollinate several doubles including Brugmansia Samba Dancer, Sweet Fantasie, and Marshmallow Sunset. The blooms themselves were still giants and I think they may be the largest single blooms I have encountered on a new seedling. Now the waiting game begins to see if the cross takes and to see if subsequent blooms also have 8 corolla teeth. I hope the next batch of blooms open fully so I can see how wide the blooms become.This one will be a watcher for sure! Iochroma 'Royalty' Brugmansia Marshmallow Sunset shows its fall colors Print Rate this article: No rating 8916 Tags:americaAngel TrumpetbrugBrugmansiajazzy