For those of you that have never seen one...it smells very good too.
Culebra Brug
Glory
Apr 20, 2003
WOW!Glory that is the first one I have ever seen!!
Glory
Apr 20, 2003
Rooty,
Here is a better picture of the plant.
Wow, that sure is an odd looking plant!
Gloria, that is so pretty. I am glad that you are having blooms .. enjoy. Mine is small and has not bloomed yet.
Geez Glory, that is just too cool!
That is sure different looking! I have never seen one before either.
Glory
Apr 20, 2003
Isn't it different...I pollinated it with EPink pollen.
Wow that's cool. It looks wicked, like claws or something.
That will be a nice cross!
That is really pretty Glory. Very nice.
Tell us your secret, never could even keep one alive.
Me either,and I have brug envy everytime I see one.....
Glory
Apr 20, 2003
The only thing I can think of is not to keep it to wet when it is small...I lost my first one that way. Maybe some one else will come along and have a better answer for that question.
Glory
Apr 20, 2003
Hi John,
Never thought about pepper. LOL I don't use that around here because my big bad dog might just get into it....one never knows what she will do next.
Thanks Glory. Does anyone know what "Culebra" means? Glory I hope to get your package out this week.
Really nice Glory!!!!!!!
Glory--neat brug--it is so differnt from the ones i have seen--love the flower and leaves-being new at brugs i have never even heard of that brug-
Very nice Glory. I must confess I killed my first Culebra as well. Over watering was most likely the culprit with me as well. Seems that when I learned to simply water when it started to wilt she did much better.
That is such a neat plant! The flowers and leaves are so different! I can honestly say I have not killed that one yet-never had it! LOL NEAT!!
I killed my first one, but the second one grew very well. Just didn't like all the yellowing leaves. I don't know what I was doing to it. Grew well and bloomed once.
Yellowing leaves are a special for aureas...they just do it.Most time after a flowerflush.
DesertRose, if my brain is not entirely out of order I think the name has to do with a snake, because of the snake-like leaves, but I will have to look it up.
btw. there are culebra x `s under their way. I hope there will be some close to culebra it self, so they will backcross with culebra characters *lol* I have an Jamaican yellow x culebra with JY leaves, but I will cross back to culebra to see, if the culebra side of this hybrid will tip over to the seedlings :)
http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/brugmansia_culebra.htm
I have the same cross Tonny, culebra x Jamaican Yellow. It has small buds on it. You're right, it doesn't have the culebra leaves. I bought it because it sounded like an odd cross.
desert_rose:
Tonny is correct. Culebra is the spanish word for snake.
Glory:
Your plant is beautiful.
Glory
Apr 23, 2003
The flower is finally fading today.
I killed mine too! Well, lets blame it on the GH heater that went off!
Wow...I just read your link Tonny...."500 Culebra hybrids are under trial in the USA"!
I have a Culebra x Arborea pod that is swelling...fingers crossed! LOL...I may be Irish, but I don't think i'm *That* Lucky! LOL
Glory
Apr 23, 2003
Bruno,
With 500 crosses out there a colored one will surely pop up...cool.
Wow, hope there will be some culebra x Rothkirch and culebra x EP. Imagine, if there will be a culebra in color ... *lol* Then it will be time to make them double *lol*
Glory
Apr 23, 2003
Tonny,
I crossed mine with EPink but only time will tell if the pod takes.
Boy, after seeing all your pictures and your messages I realize I surely have a lot to learn about Brugs. Donna
Glory, I will be thinking good thoughts!
So Brugie did you off your poor plant?
Bruno you sure are going to have some great brugs!
CC, I agree, I have brug envy way to often! LOL
Oh, Glory, I cross my fingers that it has taken as we simply has to see these future seedlings and what they will be like. I hope you get lucky and get a pink culebra. I am also curious about another thing about your cross. Culebra is said to be aurea and EP x candida. Candida is aurea x versicolor and EP has an overweight of versicolor and a bit less x candida. I wonder, how many future seedlings from your cross could turn to the aurea-side, x candida-side and the versi-side. (culebra ++++ aurea x EP + aurea and +++ versi = +++ x candida and + aurea or versi????) *lol*
Bruno, it is overwhealming to hear that the pod still grow. Arborea need about 4 months to ripe, but how long takes Culebra? I can`t wait to hear more about, what happen. *lol* I just imagined the seedlings with long, snakelike leaves, hairy and serrated edges and shredded arborea flowers. *lol* Wish that Brug hybridizing was that easy :)
Well...it's now big enough to call it a pod..so i have my fingers crossed! I plan to cross Shreded white & Culebra at the end of this month...that should be interesting too!
Glory
Apr 24, 2003
Bruno,
That should be an interesting cross.
Bruno that sounds like an interesting cross. Both has the same primary characteristics of the flowers *lol* Last year I used an amount of time studying the leaves of culebra. Bruno, if you knew that shredded white was a x candida and didn`t know, what species Culebra was, what species would you then place Culebra in? aurea or x candida? - ah, look apart from the last question. Its too leading *lol*
Kell, my Culebra is in Norwalk now. Kyle was interested in it and I knew he could do more with it than I could. I never blinked an eye as it left the driveway with him.
OK, let me get this straight, if I knew that shredded white was a x candida and didn`t know what species Culebra was, what species would I place Culebra in? aurea or x candida?
LOL...I need time to think about this one..LOL