Calystegia hybrid photos

Ladies and Gents,

Not as impressive as most of the morning glories here but here is Calystegia sepium x Calystegia pulchra, I selected for the largest pink blooms over about 5 or more generations the hybrid seems self-sterile, nice but very invasive and spreads by rhizomes. Calystegia is native to this area however the pink one has taken over where I live.

I sent some to Alberta, Canada and it survived -35 cel or more against the base of a wall.

This hybrid seems the most reliable "morning glory" here in England and the blooms stay open all day until the rain batters them :(

The bumblebees seem to like them though.

I try to also select for different 'star patterns' but the results are variable; I had one with just a light pink shimmer but it never came back

Enjoy!

Here is another, slightly different covering a wall - the stems are growing out of the cement, I told you it's a thug!

Third form, not as floppy lovely "candy floss pink" still big bloom yah!

It's a beauty.

Thanks :)

Calystegia is considered a 'bindweed' though but it's one of my favourite morning glories

i like it because it doesnt grow in my neck of the woods only in higher states but not in mine and you cant get it here. wish i could

This message was edited Jun 18, 2009 5:31 PM

Nice one! :-)

I have grown Calystegia sepium ssp. americana, the corolla is smaller just be careful where you place it..I get annoyed as it competes with my ipomoea purpurea and even grows through cement..year two and three the novelty wears off and you want to get rid of it, wants to reproduce...never leaves, hangs around becomes a pest and soon takes over...bit like a cat..new girlfriend or boyfriend LOL mine is still nagging 15 years on :whistles and rolls eyes: but still gorgeous to look at..

Here is one taken yesterday with a bee!

Here is the inflated calyx indicative of the species

Here are the species for comparison with the hybrid, Calystegia pulchra and Calystegia sepium which were crossed

Here is Calystegia sepium next to pulchra, the hybrid far right it required me to emasculate the blooms and a 100ppm of GA3 after the bloom was tied to increase the chance of creating a species I am going to outcross this to Calystegia pubescens ex Hokkaido this season...if it blooms!

Here is one of the smaller size blooms from a couple years ago...notice the picture starting the thread has a silver wedding ring this one is gold...the gold one ended up in a canal after an argument (gives a cheeky whistle and promised wife never to have drinks with women again or allow them to sit on his lap and have his tendrils everywhere heheheheheh) The silver ones are cheaper to throw...my second one now and the wife wears QVC Diamnique....

This message was edited Jun 26, 2009 7:54 PM

Wikipedia.org has a page:

Calystegia soldanella

Since I'm new to MGs, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what you are attempting; something like the larger, white Calystegia sepium, but in a new pink shade?

Hi

I have grown Calystegia soldanella it was an ascension from California collected by Ron Ratko; it never set seed though but the plant holds together sand.

The end result was the flower at the start of the thread...AND I just realised I recreated this thread somewhere else here when I went through the forum how odd is that 39 going senile :P (blush)

R

In any case, the photos are lovely; and you're not senile at 39, just "preoccupied" with other matters. Wait until you've past the half-century mark, and wander into a room without remembrance of what you were after.

If you develop that nice pink so that it sets true seeds reliably, a lot of people will want a "thug" like that on both sides of the Atlantic.

One man's "invasive" is another man's "floriferous performer."