This shrub has upright slender tough woody branches that foam a rounded habit. It is covered in mid-green broad lanced-shaped leaves and the fragrant blue-violet to white tube-shaped flowers appear during late spring and followed by fleshy fruit.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Brunfelsia hopeana is naturally found from Brazil to the West Indies growing in well-drained organic rich moist soils that are tending alkaline in protected positions. It grows in a protected sunny to semi shaded position and is drought and frost tender.

Francesca is grown for its fragrant flowers and compact rounded growth habit. It is used in parks and gardens for a tropical effect or along shrub borders as a low screen. It is also planted in small gardens and establishes in 3 to 5 years and is suitable for coastal or inland regions. ID 1440

Brunfelsia (brun-FEL-see-a) hopeana (ho-pee-AHN-a)

‘Brunfelsia’: after 16th century German botanical artist Otto Brunfels

Solanaceae (so-lan-AY-see-ee)
Potato Family