What's looking Exotic in 2023

Now I remember, I had a feeling Rothchildiana was a variety rather than the species, and I do wonder if its a more fussy version of the type, as I remember many years ago, on this site, someone showing a really quite large flowering one going up a trellis outside, in the UK.

I had reasonable sized tubers for a few years but it was just going backwards all the time, I had lots of tubers but all small.

Which is why I was thinking of the seeds I saw the other day.

 

July of 2009 I had this but only for a couple of years ...

It is a Rothschildiana as I still have the label.
I have tried with seed a couple of times since, not surprisingly with no success.

 

Hunting around, found this from 1992 as a scan, its climbing through a grapefruit plant I had at the time.

The flowers seem to change colour as they age.

 

The flowers do change colour as they age darkening and becoming a uniform colour before losing the petals.

 

I had a look on Wikipedia & thee is some mention of the toxicity of the seeds but it seems you need to eat about 8 seeds before they will actually poison you!

Ricinus - Wikipedia
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That's a good one John.
Wonder if I'll live long enough to see mine do that.

 

Got a feeling my Musella lasiocarpa is about to flower, the leaves are getting really small and the stem is thickening.

 

Ah but don't forget....it'll die after flowering...

 

Narr, it dont, not like some do.
Its got a forest of pups all around it already, but I'm not sure I want to carry on with it after flowering, you know how it is, been there done that.

 

Not mine unfortunately but a good size Albizia Summer Chocolate in Weymouth in flower. Difficult to get a decent view of it.

 

They are always best when viewed from above I think or from a distance.
The flowers are a darker colour than mine, to be expected I suppose.

 

Allamanda ...