Mirabilis jalapa 'Salmon Sunset'

Name: Mirabilis jalapa 'Salmon Sunset'
Brand: Mirabilis
SKU: pda651
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

€5,90

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Locally grown

Mirabilis jalapa 'Salmon Sunset' is a gorgeous variety that charms with its soft salmon-toned flowers and sweet fragrance, released as dusk falls.

'Salmon Sunset' is a horticultural selection of Mirabilis jalapa, a herbaceous perennial from the Nyctaginaceae family, native to the dry tropical regions of Central and South America, including Guatemala, Mexico, Chile and Peru. It develops a large blackish tuberous root with a long tradition of medicinal use across various parts of the world.

These unlikely blooms open in the late afternoon, releasing a sweet fragrance, and close again when struck by the morning sun.

This distinctive trait gave the plant its French name of Belle-de-nuit — its fragrant flowers carry fluorescent pigments that trace patterns on the corolla and attract hawkmoth pollinators.

They are not know to be particularly hardy but they have survived -10°C over the past two winters in the Deux Sèvres region so perhaps they are changing? We'll need to ask the botanists if they've noticed anything shifting on the cellular level.

Flowering	June, July, August, September, October
Flower Color	Salmon
Frost Tolerance	-10°C
Size	80cm H x 40cm W
Origin	Guatemala, Mexico, Chile and Peru

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€5,90

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🪴9x9 cm

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🌱 Grown in our nursery

The flowers are used in food colouring.
🧑‍🍳 The leaves may be eaten cooked as well, but only as an emergency food

🌿 The foliage will die back but the rhizome will allow the plant to endure the European winters.
💦 In the beginning, they require constant watering to become properly established.

The name of Mirabilis jalapa was given by Carl Von Linneus in 1753 is formed from the scientific Latin Mirabilis meaning "admirable" by allusion to the remarkable colors of its flowers and the specific name jalapa that would refer to its origin in the Jalapa in Guatemala.

Mirabilis jalapa, or Marvel of Peru, is a herbaceous perennial from the Nyctaginaceae family, native to the dry tropical regions of Central and South America, including Guatemala, Mexico, Chile and Peru.

It develops a large, blackish tuberous root with a long history of traditional medicinal use in various parts of the world.

The Four O'Clock Flower grows to 80 cm in height, sometimes more, spreading 40 to 60 cm across.

In temperate climates it disappears in winter and flowers from June to October; in tropical regions it is truly perennial and flowers all year round.

As with the wild species, the flowers open in the evening and close the following day when the sun reaches them, releasing a sweet scent from dusk until deep into the night.

The black fruit appears at the base of the flower once it has fallen. The dichotomous stems are solid, four-angled, fleshy, green to reddish in colour and swollen at the nodes, bearing opposite, oval leaves with a rounded to slightly heart-shaped base, in mid glossy green — paler on chalky soils and in full sun.

Mirabilis jalapa is believed to have been cultivated by the Aztecs for medicinal and ornamental purposes.

The plant has a potential for the bioremediation of soils polluted with moderate concentrations of heavy metals such as cadmium.