Brug blooms and their pods

I thought I would post photo of some of the Brugs that bloomed for me this fall and winter and of their pods. You'll notice that pod shapes vary. The shape is determined by the pod parent and to which Breeding History Set she belongs. Breeding History Set is simply her genetic make-up, that is which species are represented in her.

Dorthea has the most pods — 5. Three are crosses I made with Jacayna. The other 2 were pollinated by moths. So I don't know who the pollen parent is. The pods are big and fat. Dorthea came from an (Ecuador Pink x Rubirosa) X (Ecuador Pink x Rubirosa) cross. Her Breeding Set is candida (name given to an aurea x versicolor cross). Candida pod shapes can vary somewhat. Right now the pods are 5-1/4 months old, still green and growing. I'm sure development had slowed down because of winter.

This white noid was sold to me as Golden Lady which she obviously is not. The noid however is probably a suaveolens x versicolor cross because of the pod shape as well as the shape of the bloom which shows characteristics of both. She bloomed most of the fall months.

This is Maya and her pod. Maya is believed to be a KBS sport. It is a candida. Because Maya is variegated, her seedlings are albino. Her seeds are germinated in the hopes that one will be an exception and have some green and produce a variegated seedling. None so far.

This is Kelly Ann, an Ecuador Pink x Rothkirch cross and belongs to the Breeding set candida. Notice that her pods are slightly different than Maya's and Dorthea, both candidas as well. The pods are fatter than Maya's but not as fat as Dorthea's.

This is Rubirosa. Since she started blooming she has become one of my favorite Brugs. Her flushes are fantastic. She has large dark pink blooms with long tendrils, but it's the number of blooms that makes one of my favorites. She has blooms for weeks after she started blooming. One flush lasted long enough that one flush almost merged with the next one. She is also an Ecuador Pink x Rothkirch cross, but her blooms are larger and have longer tendrils than Kelly Ann's. She is also a candida. Monika Gottschalk is the hybridizer. This pod looks more like Dortheas's than any of the candidas I have.

This is truly one of my favorite dark pink Brugs. She can get very dark pink and her blooms are pretty big. I love her form. She is a Butterfly x Ecuador Pink cross and belongs to the Breeding Set cubensis (meaning her genetics come from the species aurea, suaveolens and versicolor). I don't know if anyone else has had trouble with her rooting, but I've lost a bunch of cuttings and I came close to losing her to grasshoppers last year. Maybe that makes her more precious to me. Her pod is not as old as the others as she bloomed and was pollinated in early December. The pollen parent for this pod is unknown.

This last one is Jacayna, a 6 pointer, by Paul Philips. I ended up with 2 Jacayna plants because I though I had lost my first one and bought another one. The first one eventually sent up a new shoot up from the underground trunk and bloomed this winter. Her color is listed as yellow/pink/white and that is the color of the first Jacayna's blooms. The second Jacayna's blooms, and she has had several flushes, have been all white. I don't know why her blooms have not colored up. This larger pod is on the "white" Jacayna. She has 2 pods. Both exhibit a crease down the vertical middle of the pod. I don't know if this is a characteristic of Jacayna. Both these pods were pollinated by moths.

Jacayna is a Frost Pink x Lexy cross and belongs to the Breeding Set cubensis.

I have the same creased pods on Isabella and Savoy Truffle(which I think is a Jacayna cross) They are the first I have ever had like that. I had several pods on Isabella and all looked the same.

This is a great educational tool Veronica/ Wonderful of you to have taken the time to do this. I sure many will benifit from this.

At first I thought it might be an environmental problem, but MM's pod was formed at the same time and it is not creased. It might still be an environmental problem. I wonder if it's found on other cultivars.

Bettydee those are great looking plants, I love pink, and that first oneis nice and dark.

Doris

You have some great looking plants amd blooms and lots of seed Your plumeria looks like some of mine. Thanks for taking the time to share all this . Springs coming took all my cuttings out yesterday and potted them up rained all day today so everyone got a nice shower.