What was really cool was visiting Harri Lorenzi’s Jardim Botânico Plantarum one weekend with Mauro and a co-worker of mine (we were in Brazil on a business trip), and they showed us a bunch of new Griffinia species they’d collected on recent trips. There was this one amazing huge Griffinia in bloom that was either a larger subspecies of G. hyacinthina, or possibly a new species, that gave me a severe case of plantlust. I haven’t heard if they ever identified it. I’ll see if I can attach an old picture of it.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m