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GordonHawk wrote:
OK... I have a new Hawaiian Double White.. it was a seedling this spring.. and is now a large tree... with one of the thickest trunks of any I have.. even 2-3 year old plants.. so she's healthy and doing fine.. and now is starting to flower..
The buds started dropping.. I was going to rename it Hawaiian Double Drop..the only thing nice was when you stepped on the dropped buds they woul;d pop.. like bubble wrap..
Then the buds started to open a single trumpet... with dence filling of additional skirting inside.. but not dropping down to being a double.. I opened one of these flowers.. a trumpet with a body that felt like a snake that had swallowed a pig.. inside I found not another trumpet... but a shredded white flower.. jamed into the trumpet.. I was going to post this problem question... but I thought I should wait..
OK.. now more flowers are open.. about 1/2 have double decended tiny trumpets inside... and even in ones not dropped down yet... they feel light and quite empty in the outer flower... but the other 1/2 are still forming jamed up... with a shredded white bloom inside..
Question... is this somehow usual.. to have a shredded flower inside a trumpet... I sure wish one would somehow find a way to open... a softball sized shredded flower hanging from a trumpet...
here's a picture of both types of flowers... they are obvious which are which I believe..
Gordon