3-4 in tendrils
anyone know what this one MAY be?
If it didn't come with a name tag, it's a NOID ... a gorgeous one at that. You really can't ID a Brug from a photograph. Rather than risk giving it the wrong name, it is best that it remains a noid.
Right, I just like to give mine some classification for my benefit so I know what they look. So this one will be NOID White tendrils. You seem to be knowledgable in brugs, I have a question.....I traded with someone last year and it was labeled but the lettering faded off and now I do not know what the name is, but I have one that the leaves are fuzzy. Is this a different kind. I can take a pic, but it is not blooming right now, still small.
Whenever the label fades to the point where it is unreadible and you don't remember what it was, unfortunately it is best to call it a noid. Many of us have had that happen to us at some point or another. I had a whole tablefull of named cuttings become noids when the table was overturned.
The Brugs that most of us grow are hybrids of the following 4 Brug species: B. aurea, B. insignis, B. suaveolens, and B. versicolor. The other 3 species, B. arborea, B. sanguinea, and B. vulcanicola don't usually hybridize with the first 4. These last 3 species need cooler summer climates that only a small handful of American cities can provide. So you don't see them much in our collections. I would have to have an air conditioned greenhouse to grow them here in Texas.
The fuzzy-leafed one is a different variety, but again it would be impossible to ID it. Looking at a few side views of some flowers, taken from different directions, would give you a bit of genetic information on the variety you have, but not a specific name.
This is a photo of a white noid I have. It was sold to me as Golden Lady. It is not Golden Lady. This is Golden Lady: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/59399/ My noid bloomed really well last fall and set a seed pod. Note that the calices on the two flowers have only one slit and that the neck of the flower corolla in each sticks out well beyond the bottom of the calx. These are 2 traits of B. versicolor, but the noid is not a pure versicolor because the flowers on a pure versicolor are trumpet shaped and my noid has flowers that are trumpet-funnel shaped. The seedpod that the noid produced was spindle shaped, but it was shorter and wider than a pure versicolor seedpod. There is some suaveolens or insignis mixed in my noid's ancestry. Impossible to tell which. All this gives my some information about the noids background, but not enough to tell which cultivar I received. So it remains a white noid. I plan to keep it because it has some really good qualities. It was very pest free and bloomed really well last year. It even avoided being eaten by grasshoppers last summer. LOL.
Thank you, I have already learned it is better to write with a lead pencil. Even permanent markers after a while comes off, maybe the chlorine in the water. Anyhow, now I have started putting labels in the pot and putting a label tag around the trunk if it is named.