My Barbados Cherry tree is fruiting like a madman so I have seeds galore. I am willing to trade for ANY fruit seeds that grow in my area (Zone 10B South Florida). mall, bright red, berry-sized fruit with a vitamin C content up to 65 times that of an orange. A single fruit contains the minimum daily recommended vitamin C requirements. Fruit resembles the common cherry, with a very tasty sweet flavor having a slight bite of acid. Description: A bushy shrub up to 20ft. Acerola's often form small multi-trunked trees. Trees without adequate pollination can set seedless fruit. Flowers usually appear after periods of rainfall or irrigation. Flowering may occur any time during the year (depending on local rainfall and climate patterns), and can last year-round. After flower set, fruit soon follows and will ripen in just 3-4 weeks. Fruits lose their flavor and nutritional content very rapidly upon harvest. Ripe acerola's should be picked and eaten within a few hours to preserve taste. As a result, the tree is not cultivated for commercial production of fresh fruits. There is some confusion regarding the botanical name, with the name M. glabra often used for the acerola. There is a closely related species, the true M. glabra, having smaller fruits and larger leaves. The common acerola, with its larger fruits is generally classified as M. punicifolia.

I don't see where it's restrictive nor complicated. Sorry you feel that way but I see you've only been a member for a year. I've been on here for nearly ten...you'll learn.I'm not the only "old timer" that has posted guidelines and I'm pretty darn generous offering free seeds to newbees for postage so I don't see why I shouldn't expect to get something more than zinnas,morning glories and marigold for my seed that are up for trade. Seems pretty simple to me. Peggy

I learned most of what I know about perennials from books; so, I learned the Latin name. I don't know many of the common names. Add to that the problem of several plants going by the same name and mail order companies making up common names, and the situation defies my comprehension. I have started a flow chart of Latin nomenclature changes, and I refer to plants by both the "old" Latin name and the new one. (Of course there is always the problem of old "old" Latin names, e.g. Gertrude Jekyll's Megaseas.) I would hope that new gardeners would not be put off from using Latin names because they are intimated by the Latin pronunciation. They should realize that there is no standard prounuciation. While I normally try to follow the Church Latin pronunciations, I also make exceptions for those plants named in honor of persons with non-Latin surnames. Heucher=HOY-kehr-a Forsythe=For-SITHE-eea Kniphof=Knip-HOFF-eea And then there are personal quirks -- I say hoe-sta. (I just can't be hostile toward my plants. ;> ) I don't correct anyone's way of saying it, as long as I can figure out what he or she means.

Hi, I'm interested in 5-10 seeds of the following which are listed in order of importance to me. Hope you'll find SOMETHING in my seed list of value to you. Quite an impressive list you already have. Brugmansia Charles Grimaldi, Versicolor Peach & Moonflower Datura metal double purple & Wrightii Regal Alcea Hollyhock doubles Passiflora incarnata,quadrangularis,ligularis TY-Sandy