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This one might be another hybrid than yours. The leaves of the growth region are serrated, but in the flower region most of them are entire and eggshaped. The first flowers in the Y are close to nodding to pendant, but later flowers are nodding. They start out white with the tendrils streched forward, but later they curl backwards with the edge. Color change from white to pale raspberry pink, then deep rasberry pink. A four days old flower have a strong backwards curled edge. The stems take sometime to change from green to woody. Also, the stem and petioles are very firm of juice and break with a snapping sound. The leaves are not soft as with B. x candida, but thick and with a stiff structure.

Here is one of the first flowers in the Y