woody african genera

Is any one here growing the African species???? I just visited the Silverhill Seeds site and they are taking paypal, have added usda hardiness zones, and have updated names, and new species.
Frank

Hi Frank! Good to see you posting here!

Are you talking about Ipomoea jaegeri?

More information on I. jaegeri:
http://www.thegardenforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15249

Last post shows a photo which will lead you to 2 other photos of this woody MG bush.

Or are you referring to Ipomoea mojangensi?

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3997339

Both appear to be small woody bush-like Ipomoea plants.

This one I came across on the WWW sure looks interesting:

http://www.plantsystematics.org/imgs/kcn2/r/Convolvulaceae_Ipomoea_pes-caprae_1729.html

Anyone grown this species (Ipomoea pes-caprae)?
http://www.plantsystematics.org/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Ipomoea_pes-caprae&rank=binomial

This message was edited Apr 28, 2011 8:15 PM

I've got pes-caprae growing now. Only one seed germinated but it is getting pretty tall.

Ooooh! I really like that one! I hope you have much success with it, Antoinette! :-) And I hope you get some seeds from it, too! :-)

Becky, I have some extra seeds, let me send you some, they are from FLA too.
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oh, wanted to add, they are fresh off the vine from this fall from the beach there.
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Beach vine? So they are drought tolerant? Sounds like my kinda plant! LOL!

Yes, they grow in the sand dunes and most likely would do well with a sand mixture and you can probably use cactus mix because it is quick draining like sand.
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thats a pretty vine there now. love the pink color. and the leaves look really different then other mgs.

Becky you right anything drought tolerant is good . Seems each year the weather gets weirder and weirder

Becky, do you have good pictures of your stictocardia??? Mine is about 4 years old now, but has never bloomed, and seems to suffer from the Low humidity. After the kids left home, the humidity really dropped around here. lol And do you have it under lights, and did you grow it from seed yourself????? Frank

Frank, Been a while since I grew one but it might be one that only blooms on new growth. Have you cut yours back any at all? Just a guess on my part

Thanks Antoinette for the additional information.

Frank - My sticto was started from seeds this past Fall (Sept. 2010). It has been under lights since then. I need to pot it up outside, but I have a seed pod forming on it and am waiting until after the seed pod is ripe and collected before I transplant this vine outdoors. I need more seeds in case this vine doesn't make it. Ironically, it seems to have gone into rest mode and has been dropping leaves and some of the vine branches are dying back. Though I have new branches growing from near the base of the plant. I am thinking it needs a rest period from all the growth and blooms. Or maybe when it is making seeds, it stops growing so much. Here is a photo taken several months ago (January). I prune and wrap the vine around itself because of limited space under lights indoors.

Here's one of several blooms it produce over the past month and a half.

And this is the seed pod that I am hoping produces at least one seed. I have no more seeds left and know that this one may not survive a transplant outdoors, so I have my fingers crossed I get seeds! :-)

That is one outstanding picture Becky,, oooo.
What kind of lights and what kind of heat in the room???? Frank

Informational update.

Madagascar specie Ipomoea mojangensis, is now moved to the genus Stictocardia, as
Stictocardia mojangensis.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3997339

This species was recently offered by Silverhill Seeds as "Ipomoea mojangensis",
the old name.

This specie probably has several other synonyms, probably in Argyraea
too. Silverhill is still using the older name, but for Stictocardia enthusiasts, this specie new to Stictocardia, offers some very interesting characteristics. I have read that it blooms after the leaves fall off, and that the flowers are concentrated together, but quite small. Comes in white to lavender.

As for the confusion about S. tilliafolia, I see it listed at B & T World seeds , as a synonym for S.campanulata. But when I read descriptions of experts in the field, the descriptions are quite different as to color. Maybe one of these days Daniel Austin of Florida will iron out this confusion, as he has done with many others.

As of this date 6/18/2011 Silverhill is out of I.mojangensis.

I would certainly like to hear from anyone who has grown seeds of S.maculosoi,
either from SH or Bid or Buy (BOB). Especially if you have bloomed them!
My maculosoi vine, SH seeds, has some peculiar growths on the vine. They are uniform and in different places. These growths form on the vine when the vine itself stops growing longer. The growth consist of a number of leaves, and the vine where they are attached get very chubby there, and when the leaves fall off, this growth looks a lot like an ugly fingerling potatoe, and some are curved in shape, some large some small. I have airlayered 4 of them on my vine, hoping they will root.

The problem with these very large seeds, is that you get so few, you use them up trying to get the germination method right. The important things for me, were 2 weeks or so to germinate, @ F 95 to 100 degrees, 24hours a day, and using very mild Iodine solution as an antiseptic. But, after I got it right, I got 100% take. But guess what,
my seeds were all use up by then, and I haven't seen them since at SH. Frank