What's the BIGGEST flower?

Anyone know? I think 14 inches is the largest I've seen listed are there any bigger than that? Just curious.

Supernova- says the blooms are 30cm+ long and almost as broad.

I know the blooms on my versicolor orange were longer than 14 inches. I've read that supernova has one of the widest bells too, but I've never seen that flower yet. I didn't get out and measure my blooms, but a good guess is that most of the varieties that I have would either come close or be longer than 14 inches when the penduncle is included in the length. Did I spell that right?

S.

How many inches is 30 cm?

Wait a minute... i just found a coverter. 30 centimeters is only 11.81 inches.....

I know my versi peach was longer than a foot...so,that supernova cant be the biggest,but over a foot wide....thats big!!!

there is 0.3937 inch in 1.0 centimeter.

wish everything was in inches:)

actually, metric is so much easier to work with. Everything is in multiples of 10, unlike ours that is in multiples of 12, 36,5280(linear) 8,16,32(liquid measure). I always remember that it takes 2.5cm to make an inch and a meter is 39 inches.

Cala,
How can you remember all of that info. LOL

Chemistry major. Had to remember. Plus, we order a lot of stuff from European countries and also Israel. They all use metric and I have to convert to see how large a plant gets or how big the bulbs that are being shipped are. Also in green house chemicals, it's ppm and they use ml or cc and it's easier to convert than figuring teaspoons and ounces. 5 ml is a teaspoon, 30 ml is about an ounce.

Glory... there are charts that you can get that has all the conversions in them I have a franklin pipe fitting book thats has charts in it but I keep it at work doesn't help me now....lol

I have heard of one hybridized by Lee Rathbun that one can stick ones entire head inside. This may be like so many fish stories though. Actually, the term he used if memory serves me was basketball, but you get the idea. Longest and widest, simply the longest, or simply the widest???

but bigger isn't necessarily better. You'd lose so much of the grace of the flower, the recurl, the 'whiskers'. Maybe not. Just looking for the most beautiful here.

Shape, color, fragrance-all combined in a little itty bitty flower that blooms prolifically is all I want. Where a single flower exudes its fragrance like a rich overwhelming perfume over the entire house and threatens to completly hide any rose garden within 45 meters...is that too much to ask for?

I'm with Brugman, if it don't smell, why grow it? I do prefer larger blooms though.

I like masses of blooms. I can't get over the photos where they're just smothered with flowers.

PoppySue, I love that picture Brugie posted. I meant for mine to be loaded like that, but guess I will be happy with the few at a time I'm getting now.
Wonder if we could get the width of Isabella and the length of EcuadorPink on the same bloom? They both smell wonderful and love the color of E.P. I also like the way the versicolors(E.P.) bloom all at once.

Personally, I like the fragrance of Butterfly better than Isabella and Ecuador pink put together...love the color of both Ecuador pink and Butterfly.....but for size...Ecuador pink x Isabella would be your best bet. Although, I don't know why you couldn't get lucky with a large Butterfly hybrid if that is what one is after. Seems if you go after large ones all you get is small ones and vice versa. Isn't that how it always goes? One always wants what one doesn't have?

Cala,
Is it your versicolor orange that didn't get loaded up with blooms? I kept mine to one trunk and fertilized the heck out of it and that is all. I have never had one that bloomed like that one did and felt really lucky. The gal that gave it to me sent a picture of hers from the year before and it looked almost exactly like mine. Maybe again we are dealing with the difference in temps, humidity, etc. We had a heat index many days this summer that got up to 116 degrees though, so it beats the heck out of me why one would be so different than another. Maybe mine won't be anything near the same as last year when it blooms this year too. Watch the tears flow then.

Brugie
My suaveolens white in the green house was loaded from top to bottom with blooms, but they didn't "hang" like yours. I did have JO/CG and EP that were loaded in the summer, just not now in the green house. I'm getting one or two blooms on each plant in the gh now. I guess it is the temps, because I noticed my JO is trying to look like something else with the corolla right up against the calyx without the little "space" between them. I just want it all!!!
I must admit, it was really nice in the brug house today. It smelled heavenly. I've got about a dozen blooms open right now, so I shouldn't complain. My JO did bloom heavily this summer, only thing, it was 12 feet tall!!

Maybe they didn't hang because it isn't a versicolor plant. I don't know much about brugs, but someone on here told me that versicolors hang down and others nod or whatever. Remember that Tropical Sunset that I told you I was going to order? I just read that it is a fast grower to over 12 ft. When I'm able to send you a cutting from that one, get ready. Hope your Jungle house has high ceilings.

Brugie
That makes so much sense!! Of course they won't hang!! I LOVE the few versicolors that I do have. Isn't it funny how different people love different varieties/species. How many different versicolors are there? I need more of those. If I cross the Harenhauser Garten to a versicolor, will it have hangy down blooms?

I think versicolors are my favorite. I would think that HG to a versi. would still be versi. since HG is one, isn't it?
Should still have the "hangy down" blooms.

Ms Brugie, think about me when you cut on tropical sunset too, please!!!! I am with you, i love the versicolors...

You bet, Arlene. Everyone who I have traded with in the past will get first chance at my new brugs. I hope I'll have something that you will each be able to get some good out of.

Anything with half versicolor crossed to a full versicolor or nearly so versicolor is going to give you mostly versicolors. Hence, merhfacht hybrids which are aurea x suaveolens x versicolor crossed to versicolors very often tend to be versicolors as well. Although one can get some very velvety combinations on ones versicolors by crossing them to other mixed species.

How big shall it be?

I managed to take a little sneak to my computer and found this new hybrid from Hodnik:

8613 Pride of Hannover 2001 wit grootste hangende bloem 60 cm.

I don`t know, if it really is 60 cm, because some of the lenghts on Hodnik`s site stat one thing in the list and something else with the photos, so maybe it is only 59,½ ...

... I don`t know if this specimen can be used as a hat ... by a lucky cross to insignis Cumbay it properly could ...

*lol* anyway it depends not only of size. B. aurea`s golden wildflowers rarely exceed 35 cm lenght in Denmark, but this heavy scent ... its intoxicating ...

btw. I have noted that a company on the Internet now sell Perfüme based on Datura scent ... for women *lol* No such thing for men yet, but if the lovely laidies in here would start to wear that perfüme, we men could hybridize on insignis Cumbay x Pride of Hannover 2001 and weat these as hats *lol* together we could smell and look like the legendary little people of the woods in one of Shakespears pieces *lol* could be fun if we one day gathered for an international party disguised as brugs ... with champaign and laud music ...*lol* and a guess contest on, who is which hybrid?

Well, have to sneak right back again *l*

LOL!!!! you are soooooooooo funny!!!!!!

LOL Tonny, I can just picture all of us dancing around with big Brugs on our heads.

to the theme from Grease

Tonny,
Have you been eating any of Owens cake? LOL

I think he's trying to hybridize owens cake!

Hummm...I've read several places that any versicolor can produce flowers up to 24" (60cm) long. I'm yet to have any versicolor flower for me, but I have talked to a guy in Houston who has trees that are several years old, and he swears he's had blooms 28" long. Is he pulling my leg? Surely this bunch of people would have grown one, if such a thing were possible!

MsBatt, I thought, that 24" was a joke, so ... you never know : ) I usually don`t think of hybridizing for size alone, but when size is mixed with all other high qualities of a brug, why then say no *lol* I have not grown much brugs yet, so the largest I ever actually saw, was my 35 cm long golden aurea wildflower *lol* but I know, that several flowers from the versicolor hybrids have an average lenght between 40-48 cm. I think, that 28" is quite possible.