Flowering to-day

[David Clulow]

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  I didn't; non of the staff turned up and for the first time since my university days I had to wash dishes !  Also, our poor monkeys almost starved, I had to help my friend prepare food for over 20 of them.  But this morning I took a little time off to take some photos:

flower is just opening; it quickly fades to this almost pelargonium  orange:

I am using this extensively for breeding with yellows and other near oranges, in order to intensify the colour.

This is a new cross just beginning to flower, the first was the best but I do not have a good photo.  Rudy, my grower borrowed my camera to photo his son's first birthday party and I had to use my friends camera which did not have a super macro setting and all the photos came out slightly blurred.  However, you can see, quite surprisingly that the flower has decided yellow tones.  The body of the flowers, for those of you with RHS colour charts is N155 C - D.  I just crossed some of them this morning with 'Star of Yellow Dream'.

[Mark Dimmitt]

David,

 

Your first picture is the most interesting to me. It appears to have 4 zones of color. If you can get more different colors into those zones, you could create some flowers like the best multizonal hibiscus hybrids. Here are a couple of my favorite hibiscus; they have 3-4 color zones. On the other hand, adenium flowers are so much smaller that perhaps numerous colors may not contribute much to the overall floral display?

 

----- Original Message -----

From: David Clulow

To: Adenium Yahoo;Adenium

Sent: 12/26/2009 3:42:11 PM

Subject: Flowering to-day