It starts out cream outside ...
Could this be Versicolor Peach?
... and in.
The next morning it is palest pink. By the evening of the second day, it is quite pink.
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By the third (foggy) morning, the color can be intense.
The nearest flower is a day younger than the two behind it.
In the third day (no pic), the peach color begins, and, by the time it is hanging limp, it has passed through apricot to near-amber.
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hi, my e. pink looks like that.the flowers are just about the exact same ,but im no expert.hope this helps.
Looks like my Ecuador Pink also.
Was this grown from seed or a cutting?
This is very pretty, I love the pic with the three blossoms and the fog. My EP is close to blooming and I will be very happy if it looks like yours, including the fog...
My guess would be ecuador pink, also.
Thank you all for the help. I wondered if these might be Ecuador Pink, but I had never seen one in person. I'm so excited! My Versicolor Peach died back and got a slow start followed by another setback when I transplanted it, so I haven't seen it bloom this year, and the color-palette of my memory is not sharp enough to make a useful comparison.
I bought/rescued several of these as large plants from a nursery where they had grown into gnarled, root-bound messes. I would guess that they had been there at least three years. The owner grumbled about the grower not labeling them by color (they've never heard of named brugs). From the leaves, I thought they might be versicolors, but I kept quiet because it is the kind of place where they would change their mind about selling a plant if they thought it was underpriced.
All of the plants had colored ribbons on them. Some had several different colors of ribbon -- white, yellow, pink, orange. I understood why the owner was complaining later when I was talking with an older worker there. He had been told to mark them by color when they bloomed. The plants were so root-bound (two 8' plants in each 3-gallon pot) and underfed that blooms were few and far between, but, when he saw a bloom, he dutifully tied a ribbon of the same color around the trunk. For at least two years he had kept this up. I don't know how often he made it to that corner of the nursery or what he thought when the same bloom was another color the next day. Maybe he thought he had mixed up the plants since they were shoved together and the trunks were entangled. I had the impression that, by the time I bought them, he had gotten yelled at a few times for failing to complete the simple task of labeling each plant by the color of the bloom. I think he and the owner were glad to be shet of them (old Southern expression).
I took the foggy picture this morning right before posting it. In the heat of the day, all the blooms were as limp as wet rags. Then they got their shape back in the evening. If I'm around in the morning, I'll post another picture to be sure that the color they have as they fade doesn't affect the ID.
..... I think my camara wants these to be pinker than they are, to my eye anyway. I think they are peaching out a little. Do they still look like Ecuador Pink?
Yep, still looks like Ecuador Pink
She looks like EP to me, but if the color isn't right, I don't know what she would be. The recurve suggest EP.
Thank you all so much for the ID! I've taken 40 cuttings that are doing well, if anyone would like one.
PlanterRik, Just loved your photo of the three blooms in foggy background. I don't have an EP and only have seedling crosses of Versa Peach, so I would be of no help in IDing. Would love a cutting of EP if I didn't live so far away. Nice of you to offer anyway. Donna
The flower look like what an EP flower is supposed to look like. Could be EP or an EP hybrid, that come close in the look to the wildplant. The only way to know for sure, that it is not an EP x is to backcross to a verified Longees EP and hope that all the pods fall of. I know it sounds crazy and who in the world would like for any pod to fall of? However, if the pods of such cross fall of, it mean, that you were crossing two clones of the same plant. Isn' t that a marvelous color? I always loved, how the edge bend over :)
Rik, yours are a much darker, rosier color than the blossoms on my versicolor peach. Really pretty!