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Old 09-11-2013, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Sacha[_11_] View Post

It's quite extraordinarily powerful and as it's (usually) strongest at
5pm or thereabouts here, I imagine they're moth pollinated?
Googling Brugmansia pollination gives the answer pretty quickly ;-)

But in general, scent = insect rather than bird or wind.
Light colours showing up well in the evening plus evening scent = moth.

Meanwhile, there's a red flowered scentless Brugmansia which, as you'd expect, is bird pollinated.
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