arborea seeds

OK ,I know you told me not to do it but I bid on some arborea seeds,they went for 1.49.

I took a picture of what they look like next to my regular brug seeds,the top ones are white suavenolens,the middle are the arborea and the bottom are Isabella.
I know the arborea are suppose to be big,and they are larger than my seeds but do you think they are arborea?

LOL CC - I did the same thing. Not sure if it's from the same guy tho. I hope they are the real thing. Mine were big too but I don't know if they were big enough to be arboreas.

I hope they are arborea and you get some pretty babies!

CC, I wish its the right seeds you have got there. From the size it could be them. Aurea and arborea (besides from any of their hybrids) have large seeds. All other species has small seeds.

I looked in the Brugmansia folder and found a picture of Idas seeds, which is also arborea and hope your seeds look a bit like that.

CC I got some of those seeds last fall and they are up and growing but no fuzzy toothed leaves yet.so hope they are the real deal. :-)

CC, the arborea seeds should be 3-4 times as big as a lot of seeds. Are they? It's hard to tell from the photo.

Mine were very big........((FINGERS CROSSED))

they are not huge,but bigger than any other seeds I have

Gunna plant them anyhow

I have a few photos as can be used to id arborea seedlings, if some of you should have some. Here is an Ida grown from a cut plant. Its spring leaves and that is why they are not dark green, but note the serration in the upper leaves. These are velvety pubescent.

In this one the leaves are as in the first plant, but noth that the serration starts early (approx. thirth leaf) and wear off early too (approx. eight leaf).

Note, that this arborea species there are six visible leaves, but until here no apparent serration. Still the leaves are spring color (light) and velvety as we all know from the double white x candidas.

In this specimen the serration started first by the seventh leaf.

A closer look from above.
Note, that the serration wears off at the top leaves.

In the arborea species about 30 % of the leaves in the flowering region is serrated and the rest sub-entire.

In Ida the leaves of the flowering region is rarely serrated, maybe less than 12 %. There is a pre-dominancy of entire leaves and some entire with with slightly wawy edges.

I hope this will help ID`ing arborea seedlings. :)

Great purchase there CC

OT,
got your email CC and hit me back with what you would like done regarding the canna tuber.
thanks,

Jodie1 ,I'll email you

Tonny,are those all from the same source?Some look different than the others

CC, Picture no. 1,2 and 7 are Ida and the rest are a B. arborea. They were not all taken on the same time at year. That is why the plant parts looks different. :) I show two arborea types, because they can as sedlings have very different leaf types. Some put out serrated leaves from the start, other do this by the seventh or eight leaf. That is, what I try to show.




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