Cockatoo

Hi all:
Just to show you a picture of one of the varieties I have, Cockatoo. It's one of 17 sports that the cultivar Dorothy Brady has. It's a 7" bloom and, depending on weather, it can be double, single or with petaloids.

Regards

Carlos

Oh that is magnificent! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Susan
=^..^=

Can I just say, "WOW"!!!! that is gorgeous!

WOW!...I am assuming it is tropical??............double WOW!

7 inches is good!! I love big blooms.

... and this is when it blooms as a single, in late Spring.

Carlos

Carlo...very nice..I'll take a dozen..! What does Dorothy Brady look like in its normal state?

The picture isn't mine. It's from an australian guy that shows all his blooms with this background.
Its sports are the following (I forgot one):
Amber Magna
Apricot Delight
Big Top
Brash One
Calypso Dancer
Cockatoo
Fandango
Foster Brady
Gan-Mor Gloriana
Glowing Delight
Guy Mitchell
Ken-Mer Rhapsody
Orange Delight
Orange Surprise
Robyn's Delight
Ruby Delight

So, here you have Dorothy Brady.


Carlos

Mama is lovely so I can guess all the offspring are also. Dotti

So when can we have cutting? : ) Those are both just gorgeous!

carlo05, thank you for posting the photos and information about the Cockatoo. I have a hibiscus (which I have been unable to identify) that was given to me that bloomed as a pink double last summer. Its first blooms opened this past week and instead of being double, they had 10 open petals with 1 petal being considerably smaller than the rest, the background petals being of equal size and the others somewhat varying in size,and a little "tongue" in the middle. I had been very confused about this. I had been trying to determine why the blooms are so different than they were in the summer. These were my thoughts as I was trying to solve the mystery (mystery to me, anyway):

At first I thought perhaps I was just going a bit crazy and "seeing weird things".

Then, I thought that aliens had zapped it because one of my lantana's blooms are a different color than they should be as well as a few other plants looking differently than they usually do.

Maybe the abnormal fall and winter weather which was extremely warm and the cooler than normal spring had affected the flower formation.

I had brought it in the house during a couple of hard freezes and then put it back outside when the temperatures warmed up ... Maybe this was the explanation. No, this couldn't be it because I had done the same thing with several of my other hibiscus and their blooms are "normal". (I started talking to myself).

Due to my having to water it a lot due to a drought, could the flouride in the water affect this hibiscus and not my other ones?

Perhaps my big old dog had urinated in the container right before I had watered the plant. The dog urine did not kill it, but it affected the bloom formation. :o)

Could I have fed it with the chrysanthemum fertiizer instead of the hibiscus fertilizer, the plant thought it was an "open-face" chrysanthemum and was having an identity crisis? :o)

Then, I thought that maybe it has different flower characteristics in the spring than it does in the summer ... No , this couldn't be it. I have never seen a hibiscus change flower forms; although I do observe larger blooms and more intense colors in cooler weather. (Talkng to myself again)

Anyway, I won't bore you with anymore of my trying to think this out. I came to the Hibiscus Forum in order to try to identify this hibiscus and lo and behold, carlo05, you solved my mystery. Now, if I could just identify the hibiscus.

Here's a phoot of a flower just after opening ...

Here is a different view ...

Another not so well focused view ...

Here's the link to a photo of how the flower looks in the summer. I have not been able to locate the CD that has my photos which shows the flower in its summer stage. This is a bloom produced by my plant's "mother" plant. The bloom actually looks nore like the Dorothy Brady photo, but of course, is pink.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=1156561

This message was edited Apr 5, 2006 5:51 AM

htop, I don't think is weather related what's happening with your hibiscus and the other plants. Maybe the use of chemicals caused this type of mutations. It's well known that products like Round Up and other herbicides used in the vecinity of some plants can caused temporary changes in their blooms.
Seeing the link you provide there's a garden variety called Feather Duster that is similar to that one, but not sure if they're the same.

Regards

Carlos

Carlos, thanks for the information. I haven't used any Round Up and other herbicides. But, will keep trying to come up with a reason the blooms are doing this. I have been trying to ID it for a long time and will check out Feather Duster.

Sure does look like Feather Duster ... thanks again.

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