I have haemanthus (albiflos?) seeds for trade, which are pretty cool. These are actually either corms or bulbils, not seeds, 7mm translucent and you can see a green protoleaf inside ready to go. Anyone else like some? If you would like to trade a small drac offset or sauromatum offset, I can send extra postage. Contact me via my regular email shown on my GW page, and put the word 'SWAP' on the subject line so I know it's not spam. Thanks! --Rr

Here is some information based on my personal experiences with growing different types of Pipevine from seed and otherwise: Fimbriata grows well from seed and germinates fairly quickly. If you are in Texas, that would be first choice for ease of germination and growth. I got my seed from someone on one of the forums last year. You could do a search for "Fimbriata seeds" and find out who had them. I am getting little "pipes" on my plants. If they get pollinated, I should have some seed this fall. Since I live in Oklahoma, the Fimbriata is not hardy here and I'll have to give it winter protection, or start again from seed. I also planted Serpentaria seed last fall and it germinated. It takes a long time for the plants to get any size; whereas the Fimbriata grew rather quickly. Rod Angeroth offered the seed on our forum last fall, so watch for his posting. The Serpentaria plants have been the first choice of the Pipevines in my yard. Second choice has been Tomentosa. As soon as I find the caterpillars on the Serpentaria, I move them over to the Tomentosa to conserve the Serpentaria plants for egg laying. I have a seed pod on my Tomentosa but it hasn't matured yet. I'll see what happens when I plant the seeds as to whether it germinates easily. I may have some extra seeds to spare. Since this is my first time to have a pod mature, I don't know what to expect. My Tomentosa plants were either purchased or collected from outside my neighborhood where it grows wild. It is very hard to get the cuttings to root. I've had minimal success doing this. Clematitis takes a long time to germinate. After 6 months, 2 of my dozen seeds germinated. Those 2 plants have taken off. I have purchased 6 more plants from a native plant vendor, and Susan gave me a start. So far the Clematitis has been ignored in my garden. But, I think that it will be discovered as it spreads. I have Macrophylla also, but that has been my slowest grower, and it hasn't had any attention from the Pipevines. I didn't start it from seed, but purchased the plant from a native nursery in our state. Sandy

Aristolochia littoralis also (formerly) known as A. elegans. Easy but more delicate and not as vigorous as bigger A. gigantea or A. ringens which are other great Aristolochia. butterfly people had to admit it but you gotta control the amount of caterpillars on these and most passiflora or the plant will not get established with any vigor. I use BT which is a safer way to only target caterpillars but it isn't systemic so after a rain you gotta reaply. Bayer advanced markets some excellent pesticides that are systemic but even those only last a couple weeks. I like Conserve SE but I don't know if its available to the retail consumer. It's a systemic and esaier on non targeted insects such as bees. In any case even once established well I still spray portions of the vine to control a million caterpillars. Plucking off the cats and crushing eggs on leaf tip tendrils are a good way too. Don't get me wrong I love the butterflies and hate to hinder their family rates. Aristolochia doesn't like much fertilizer in fact too much and it will hamper blooming but it will grow a lot of leaves.

I can get you Dendrocnide moroides, and even Dendrocnide excelsa. If tropicals are your thing, I have a buddy selling Amorphophallus gigas and Amorphophallus hewetii seeds. NOT FOR amateur gardeners, they’re rare and can be tricky to care for. However myself I only have Hippomane mancinella, opuntia ficus indica, opuntia microdasys, opuntia macrocentra, opuntia humifusa “Iowa” unrooted pads and opuntia fragilis “South Dakota” unrooted pads.