germinating in the mail
Jane McGary (Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:04:11 PST)

When I was doing the intake phase of the NARGS Seed Exchange in the
mid-1990s, I got a donation from Australia that included Calostemma
purpureum. The envelope fell open, and out rolled what looked like a
bunch of sprouting garbanzo beans. I potted them up and gave samples
away at our local chapter. The ones I kept are in flower as I write.
This is not a showy flower but of course interesting to grow an
Australian geophyte here.

Jane McGary

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