Ok...If I didn't know what species Culebra was I would say... ....that it's an: x Candida Group Hybrid.
...Judging by elongation of it's fruit, it's pedulous flowering habit and that it flowers in bursts / phases.
Brilliant question Tonny...I never really thought about Culebra's parentage before! What do you think?
Culebra Brug
By chance does anyone here have some leftover culebra pollen? I could trade seeds or pollen for it, please email me if you do.
I am not sure if anyone has ID'd it further than the account from R.E. Schultes, but here is a quote from him in Plants of the Gods, by him and Albert Hofmann. This is from back when it was identified as Methysticodensron still.
"It may, however represent a highly atrophied clone of some species of Brugmansia, but, if so, it is so altered as to preclude assigning it with certainty to any species".
I have typed this before, mainly because I am not sure why it is thought to be any certain known variety aside from 'multihybrid', because it bears little resemblance to any of the others. Was it Lockwood who said B. aurea? Were there reasons? I remember parts of the flowers fused and numbers and hairs missing- classic signs of certain species were missing from the puzzle to make even an educated guess.
Or am I stuck in the late 70's?
Dennis, watch the flowers and leafes and its growing,it has all frome aurea. May be I am wrong but watching my Culebras (many in GH) I ever would say it is a aurea.
Lol,By watching and not by reading...
May be I will have some pollen soon.
Yeah that's a great quote from R.E. Schultes and Albert Hofmann, thanks for posting it Dennis! I said x Candida group as I don't belive it's a pure x Candida but have noticed it does bare similarities but we're just bouncing ideas off each other!
Would you guys say it was an atrophied seedling or sport/chimera?