Bought an unidentified brug today

Hi, All -

I would normally never buy an unidentified brug at a garden center - EXCEPT - for this one I found today --and my jaw hit the ground when I saw it's color! WOW what vibrant orange! Have never seen such a beautiful color before except on a few seedling some members have hybridized. The garden center had it for 40% off it's original price of $30. But they had about 12 of them all different colors and none of them had names. The mgr said he had no idea of their variety. sigh. It looks like a versi - but not sure. Anybody recognize it?? I think I have versi orange already and this is WAAY more orange...I'll post another pic too so you can see its size and leaf form.

Diane Krny

here's another pic..ideas anyone?

Diane

oops double post dangit!!! defer tote next one heh... :P

This message was edited Sep 10, 2005 6:24 PM

WOW Diane!!
Thats a looker for sure. I do recognize it
Its called MINE!! heh... ;P
Beautiful flower there Lady!!
Congrats!! ;)
I like the 'M' tatoo on your forehead 8'D

It looks like CG or Dr. Seuss to me.

Hi, Monika - really? You don't think the flower form looks like a versi type? They look more pendulant than nodding to me - but I am far from an expert. I have a couple Dr. Seuss and those are much more of a golden yellow to deeper gold color - this is ORANGE. Also the tendrils on this are quite a bit longer than my Dr. Seuss. I have never seen a CG in person. I took a closer look at all the leaves and found it strange that some are saw-tooth or jagged and some are smooth. Shouldn't they all be one or the other? I was thinking perhaps this was some un-named cross that the nursery grew from seed or some local grower grew from seed and then gave the seedlings to the nursery to sell. That's really sad if they did that because no one will ever know who the parents are.

Diane

Charles Grimaldi has both serrate and smooth edge leaves at the same time. Both Dr. Seuss and C. Grimaldi have more pendant than nodding flowers. Both Seuss and Grimaldi flowers can turn orange. Hope this helps a little bit.

Dont' know what kind but you sure got a beauty!!!

I notice the tendrils on yours go down and don't recurve. My neighbour has a Dr. Suess that I gave him, and his is the same and can get as dark orange. I've attached a picture.

Linda

thanks, Linda and Vicki for the further detailed info. Vicki - if CG has both serrated and smooth edge leaves - and can turn a true orange - that really sounds like this one then. I guess Monika nailed it on the first call...

Do you think it would be the right thing to do to label this as CG and even share it as such..or should I always leave it labeled as an unknown?

Diane

Hey, ya know I just hopped over to the Plant Database and looked at the CG pictures and this one sure looks like my girl...
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/24275/

I had heard somewhere that some folks think CG and Dr. Seuss are the same - but they don't look the same to me. I had never seen a CG, so that is why I didn't recognize it. Wow..it may be an old one but I just absolutely LOVE the color, form and shape of the flower.

Diane

Diane, CG was my very first Burg and I think it is the most fragrant of all the brugs that I own....It really is a heady scent...the color changes from yellow to bright orange in the day after it blooms...it sure is an old stand by...Judy

It will be interesting to see how long the calyx is on your next blooms, Diane.

Diane even though it strongly resembles CG it would be dangerous to name your brugmansia when we don't know for sure what it is. I suggest that you cross your unknown with a known CG. Send some of your unknown pollen to someone who is growing CG . They in turn should send you CG pollen. If neither one of you gets a viable seedpod then you can be reasonbly sure that the two are the same B. x 'Charles Grimaldi'.

My "orange" brug was marked "Ember Glow"

Ember Glow is Frosty Pink x Dr. Seuss. They're related most likely to the one Diane has.

Hi, ALL - came home from work tonight and was out in the yard discussing the dry well situation with dear hubby and looked across the patio and saw that second bloom on this mystery brug opened tonight! WOW what a beauty..look at this recurve! the color this first night as rendered by the flash is a light orangey gold - just as you see it. I'll post another view..

Here's another view. I took a few of the face but they came out all out of focus. dang..my good digital slr has been in Nikon repair for 6 wks!! All I have is my small canon point n shoot and I can't control it like my good one.

Ain't she purty?? Still can't decide if it is CG or not.

Diane

It looks just like my CG. But being a beginner I also know that with brugs, looks can be deceiving! LOL

WOW, Diane that's a beauty. Looks like it has some smooth edge leaves and some serrated. I think that is a characteristic of CG. Maybe it's a CG seedling? Whatever it is, it's beautiful.

How is the fragrance? CG is such a fragrant brug! To me it also looks like CG, but not sure.

MG99,
Does your CG have any serrated leaves. The photo of your neighbor's Brug, a cutting of yours, doesn't seem to have any serrated leaves. My CG has some smooth edged leaves, but they are mostly the immature leaves. All the mature leaves on my CG are serrated.

Hi, All - well, two more flowers have now bloomed and matured. Neither really acheived the deep, deep orange of the original one I showed here. Perhaps that is because it has not been quite as hot at the last two months have been here. It does appear that it is either CG or as one person suggested "Solid Gold". I understand that has both serrated and smooth edged leaves as well. So, still not sure until I can get some cross pollen and try to pollinate it to see if I can narrow it down. It sure is pretty, and YES, very, very fragrant.

Diane

I hope it's CG, Diane, and that mine looks just like yours, soooo pretty, substantial. Actually, I have lots of CG because I got a box of cutting and cut CG up into little pieces and every one rooted, I gave them to lots of friends and had one that was only a 1 inch log, it is sooooo easy to root...