Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Favorite Yellow? , 1 by woodspirit1

woodspirit1 wrote:
this is the one I was trying to think of, not datura. It is called Iochroma cyaneum and is related to brugs and also tobacco, I think. There are many photos in the plantsfiles. They run mostly from dark purple to dark blue and then some that are pinkish. I have one or two photos of one called "sunset" which appears to be more on the orange side.
This pic is the most common one. I'm not sure of the size of the blooms but they seem to make a nice show and you can get an idea by comparing them to the size of the surrounding leaves. Apparently they bloom year-round is our more tropical areas: south FL, south TX and southern CA