BRUGMANSIA VULCANICOLA

Anyone have any experience with this one? It's so strange looking - I like it. What type of growing conditions does it need?

Poppysue, you lucky girl! we may have a longer growing season but you get to grow the reds...

PoppySue,
I have had this one growing since summer in the yard from a rooted cutting from Hodniks. Of course, I have the best in my oppinion...Roter Vulkan-a pure red vulcanicola hybrid. It grows very slow here in Florida and I am not sure it will make it another year as it is so hot here. It has very velvety leaves, much more so then the Candida species and widely serrated leaves. Mine died back to the ground when I stuck it in the ground, but it did come back and like I said, its still growing. I have a feeling winter may do it in though. This is a hybrid better suited for zones further North if you ask me, but only time will tell if it can make it here in Northern Florida.

So I gather it likes conditions similar to the sanguinea. Anyone know a seed source? I'd love to try it.

Roter Vulkan is a hybrid so a seedling would not be the same. If it was a roter Vulkan cross....,but the regular old vulcanicola is not my cup of tea as it has too much yellow in it, albeit the shape is very different from the sanguinea.

Roter Vulkan is a hybrid so a seedling would not be the same. If it was a roter Vulkan cross....,but the regular old vulcanicola is not my cup of tea as it has too much yellow in it, albeit the shape is very different from the sanguinea and the seedpod is bumpy and roundish.

Where'd you get yours Brugman?

Hodniks of Course, its my favorite Brug place and one can't beat them even in the states for speed of delivery.

I have grown and bloomed B. vulcanicola in San Francisco and El Cerrito, CA. It is supposedly hard to grow, but it does beautifully in the coolish, coastal climate, or cloud forest conditions, of the Strybing Botanical Garden in SF.

The salmon pink flower is breathtaking.

horticultz7, PICS PLEASE!!! would love to see.

Roter Vulkan is pure red and my favorite if I could get it too bloom for me. For now, I have to look at pictures in a book.

I have placed a picture of B. vulcanicola on my member page. Please click on the photo to enlarge it. This does not truly capture the lucious color, but it gets the form.

Horticult7, it is beautiful! thanks for sharing.

That's gorgeoous horticult7. Is that Roter Vulkan? I wonder how it'd do in cool coastal Maine. I gotta get me one of them.

Bgugman - does hodnik have a catalog? Their website doen't have much on it. If I order from them I'd like to see the others they have.

Poppysue: Email Hodnik's and ask for their current list. They should have roter vulkan.

The photo of vulcanicola on my member page shows the species collected in the wild, as far as I know. I obtained it from Strybing Bot Garden in SF. I cannot imagine it will do well in Maine, but I will make inquiries.

There are more pictures of this species on the web at http://home.att.net/~perennials/llie4.html. There are other pix on web of a plant with that name that looks completely different. Maybe Lebonjardinier Pierre can respond to this?

Horticult7 Couldn't get the hyperlink to work. Are you going to trade any cuttings of the vulcanicola? It's a beaut!

Here's the link http://home.att.net/~perennials/llie4.html You don't think it would do well here? Why is it so fussy?

I have several in my garden and would consider trading. What you got??? (that I don't yet have, that is). I am looking for unusual sanguinea cultivars (already have solid red and solid yellow and the species), or very orange ones of other species…

You can write directly to me if you want.

Horticult - what do you think this picture is http://leda.lycaeum.org/Images/Brugmansia_vulcanicola.15882.shtml Some sort of vulcanicola hybrid? The foliage looks glossy in that photo. I like the odd shaped flowers.

Poppysue, the photo looks like the one in Engelstrompeten, labeled "gelb-rot bluhende Form von B. vulcanicola." If anyone wants to trade that for mine, please contact me.

http://www.nativehabitat.com/plants_brugmansias.html
link to another vulcanicola. Hey Hort, thanks for correcting me. Do you have a pic of red Roter Vulkan in bloom you wouldn't mind posting?

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The link that Brugmansia posted is to the same photo from the Engelstrompeten book labeled "gelb-rot bluhende Form von B. vulcanicola." I bought the book from the website owner.

Thanks Horticult7, now if we can just find someone to read German in here. Ahh, Poppysue-I got my Roter Vulkan from Hodniks, I can't say enough good things about that site.

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