Hi Interested in your Aristolochia Tomentosa seeds I have a few different Dutchman's Pipe Vine seeds I can offer in trade If you're interested please shoot me an email & I'll send you a list of the ones I have available Thanx Eric dethcheez@aol.com

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Weebay, I ws'd A. tomentosa 3 years ago, with great success. Soaked in hot water for 24 hours; sowed on February 20th; sprouted May 14th. I got between 5-10 sprouts, and potted up about 5. Well, I never figured out where to plant them, and so they are still in pots! Unfortunately 3 have died off with only 2 healthy plants left in 1 gallon pots. They probably all would have survived if they had been planted in the ground or potted up to larger containers sooner. But, winter-sowing makes starting stuff from seed so easy, that I have this problem with sprouting vines, shrubs and trees, and not knowing where to plant them! Supposedly, A. tomentosa and A. macrophylla are the only 2 pipevine species that will be hardy in our colder zones. They grow well in partial shade. Aristolochia is a host plant for the Pipevine Swallowtail, which I have never seen around here, but may be resident in your area. I ordered the seed from Easywildflowers.com and they still sell it. Very nice guy runs that company, generous quantities, great germination, and I shared many of the extra seeds in SASBEs. Still have some left, but not sure if they are still viable?? Somewhere I read these lose viability quickly; however I am meticulous about storing seeds, so it wouldn't surprise me if they sprouted fine.

Sandy, Thank you very much for your description of the seeds. That sounds exactly what mine look like! That's a relief to know that it's what I have. You're right about them not looking like they could be viable. I never saw seeds like them before; if I hadn't been told that they are seeds and had just seen them lying somewhere, I'd probably have thrown them away thinking they were junk. The seeds came up fine for me. I also planted some Virginia Snakeroot, but those containers don't have any signs of life yet, but I'm hoping for the best. I also have A. macrophylla. I'm determined to get the Pipevine Swallowtail here someday; it hasn't yet been reported for my county. I think it's a beautiful butterfly, judging from pictures I've seen of it. If you'd like to see where I read about the tubular seed description, I've included the link to the website. Terrene, I appreciate your description, and like I told Sandy, your description fits the seeds that were given to me. I usually take for granted that what people send me is what they say it is, but then when I read the description of the seed on the website I was on reading about A. tomentosa (I'll include the link below for you to read if you'd like...it's not a lot to read) and it didn't sound like these at all, it got me to thinking that the person might have mislabeled their seeds by accident. I'm glad to find out that they are what I wanted. It's also good to know that the plants made it through your zone 5 winter. Since I'm in zone 6, I guess I shouldn't have a problem with them then. Thanks again. Now I hope that the plants will be okay on the "trellis" that I'm putting up for them. I bought a 50-ft roll of wire fencing at Lowe's for this purpose. I'm going to cut three 16-ft pieces, make each into a big circle with an approximate 5-ft diameter, and stack each circle on top of each other. The total height would be 12 feet, so I'm hoping that's tall enough considering I've read that the vine gets 20-30 feet long. This is the best setup that I can come up with for them. Cathy Here is a link that might be useful: Aristolochia tomentosa