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Good day all fellow bulb enthusiasts,

I hope there is someone here that might be able to help me.

I am from South Africa, and I am interested in buying Crinum luteolum/flaccidum bulbs/seeds.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I am interested, too

Just use Google -

Buy Crinum luteolum with Canarius

I have bought from them before and they are perefectly reliable.

Seeds have appeared on EPay every once in a while from various suppliers - set up a notification.

There are also nurseries in the Far East - Thailand/Indonesia - that offer large numbers of spcies Crinums if you search. I have never bought from them, but I know someone who has and was perfectly happy with what arrived. Whether they offer this species, I don't know, it is a while since I browsed.

Thanks, but it's not so easy. Canarius don't ship to peninsular Spain, and they just did not answer my emails.

I will someday ask a friend in Portugal to order for me.

Carlos

Quote from: Carlos on February 08, 2025, 02:15:07 AMCanarius don't ship to peninsular Spain,

?? Weird!!

They are an autonomous region of Spain, part of the EU, business is business, surely?

I checked one Thai website - Thailand Plant, and they do not list the species.

Set up an EPay alert for the species name(s) alone (no "Crinum"). I quickly found 2-3 old listings for seeds, since removed from the site, one from a very reputable seed company in the UK. If you use the word "Crinum", you will get endless alerts and I have never found a way for an alert to work on a whole phrase, such as a binomial.

Hi. Not an autonomous region like Madeira in Portugal, but there are specific phytosanitary regulations for exchanges with and from the mainland. These regulations can only affect operations within the country, but have no force between other countries, as that would be against the free circulation of goods witin the EU.

So we have the absurd situation that some pests not regulated by EU laws can enter the Canaries from third countries (and they do), but not from mainland Spain, and vice-versa. Let's make Spain great again...

The solution is to have someone order from outside Spain and ship again, but you have to bother the person and I still have not tried (I have more interesting plants to be imported from South Africa, for example).

Quote from: Carlos on February 08, 2025, 07:31:23 AMHi. Not an autonomous region like Madeira in Portugal, but there are specific phytosanitary regulations for exchanges with and from the mainland. These regulations can only affect operations within the country, but have no force between other countries, as that would be against the free circulation of goods witin the EU.

I noticed that on the Rareplants.eu site, that they are located in Spain but don't ship to a lot of areas in Spain because of regulations and paperwork. That's like a popular Portuguese domestic goods shop will ship large items to Madeira but not to the Azores. I have found that customs in Lisboa can be very, very restrictive. I just bought some seeds from Rareplants, and the latest update says they are going through customs in Lisboa, even though it is one EU country to another.

Madeira is like the Azores. I am not sure, but they also have specific regulations within Portugal, like we have with the Canaries. 

I would be eager to send them to you from Spain, but I have the same problem as I have with Canarius: they won't ship to contintental Spain. 

But if I ever order again, I will tell you, as I can have them sent to Faro in the Algarve, then to Spain. I could then send your share to you. Only that he did not reply to my last emails. 

Carlos