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684 Crossland Rd
Murray, KY 42071
Volcan Fuego
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Volcano Series: Guatemala. Also the name of one of our favorite varietal coffees from that region! Mahieu Diploid 97-278 A [H hakuunensis #2 X BURNING DAYLIGHT] 48 L 4 RE NOC EXT light FR DOR a bud-builder with 5 way branching 64 buds, trumpet form blooming for a month and a half July 14 - Sept 1 in zone 5 Sending up rebloom scapes in November! Get this plant if you want to know what hybrid vigor is all about! This is a very vigorous grower and increaser. The foliage is up to 2 inches wide, corrugated and a lime green color (not dark green) and exceptionally resistant to pests and disease. The thick scapes create cones of fluorescent orange trumpets due to their candelabra branching. Oddly, this orange flower opens at night. Early in the morning, the blooms are reverse bitones with the sepals flecked in scarlet and a suggestion of a stippled halo. By mid-morning, the blooms are just SCREAMING light cadmium orange. This is definitely one that they will be able to "see from the road". Extremely Fertile both ways, this plant has produced offspring with, very rare, radial branching. That is, the branches radiate out from the scape like spokes of a wheel rather than side to side like a menorah. I think VOLCAN FUEGO will be an important landscaping plant. We lined it out two years ago, and it has made a chest high HEDGE!
