Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Trumpet Flowers?




Anyone have an idea what this plant is? For want of a better name, I will call it a Trumpet Flower.



It is growing outside our department's window.

I see it from my boss' office and one day last week, I took a walk over to it.

I have never seen anything quite like it. A plant filled with trumpet flowers of some sort.





There are two plants and one seems to be a different color from the other.

One a yellow color and the other carrying a pink shade in the trumpet flower.

Pretty and interesting. That's LA.


Updated to add that after a bit more research, I found out that the name of the plant is Angel's Trumpet. You can read about them here...Angel's Trumpet.

4 comments:

  1. There IS a plant called trumpet vine, because of the form of the flowers; whether this is it, I'm not sure. I quickly checked a plant-finder website I like, https://www.plantinfo.umn.edu/, but nothing that came up on "trumpet vine" search looked like your stuff.

    It's certainly pretty!

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  2. I GOT it Piglet!!!!!


    Angel's Trumpet is the plant. Who knew? I certainly didn't. :-)


    Off to update the blog post a little. Darn, it would have been so much better if I knew before I posted this. lol

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  3. Angel's trumpet -- how cool is that!!!

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  4. I just poked around a bit more, and found that we do have that plant here (Brugmansia), but it grows as a bush, not a vine that needs support. It's a bush I've seen a lot of on boulevards the last couple years, didn't know what it was, but it must be unbelievably hardy -- on the boulevard, it's exposed to sand and salt during the winter when the plows come through. Very cool. The things you learn from your blogging friends... :-)

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