Hibiscus: Todays new bloomer.., 1 by DavidFranzman

DavidFranzman wrote:
Hey Kyle

I was wondering if you have detected a scent? I was one of two growers in the country last year with that variety...hybridized by Sonny Stallings...and I never got a whiff of it. I also have and have had in the past Heaven Scent which reportedly had a scent as well and I have yet to smell that. Beautiful flower though and worth having for that reason only.

I'm currently working with a hybridizer in Hawaii who has scented hibs but she isn't ready to release them yet. Scent is a recessive gene apparently and because of all the hybridizing hibs that naturally had a scent have lost it. She is working to bring it back. Pretty interesting I think.