Morning Glories: Carnea, 1 by patootie

patootie wrote:
Ron, very interesting. A little hard to understand with my 2 plants looking so different and acting so different except for the identical blooms. I may send pics of mine so
you can see how they differ. Not to argue but so you can see why I am amazed. My carnea was started from seed but I purchased 2 grown plants of fistulosa.

To relate a story re the fistulosa purchase 8 or so yrs ago.
I went to a local nursery and saw the fistulosa, there was no tag.
Looking at the spear shaped leaf, I thought gee that looks like the cemetary flower
id'd by Mr Hudson as Zapotec collection, Ip ssp fistulosa, a lovely cemetary
flower. I had germinated a seed but lost the plant by doing something stupid.
I recognized it solely by the lvs.
So I asked the nursery owner, could that be a tree mg? She said she didn't
think so. Fast fwd 3 or 4 weeks. I had rec'd my latest issue of Tropical mag,
defunct for the last few yrs. In it was an article re hibiscus, showing some of
the more rare and exotic. One pic was id'd as gossypium stuartii, ornamental
cotton. It was identical to the plant at the nursery. I returned to the nursery and
asked her if the gossypium's were for sale and she said yes. lol
She had purchased the plants from a lady in So Louisiana who had id'd them
as gossypiums or she had seen the mag article. Until I joined Dave's, I was still calling them gossypium's. lol
So you could say I've already been on quite a journey with my gossypium
turned fistulosa.

Jackie
Sorry if I bored anyone, I still find it amusing. Wish I could find the old mag
to see for sure if fistulosa was mis-identified
Here's a pic showing the bottom growth of fistulosa from last summer
I'll send a pic of my ugly carnea soon.