Wish list! who has them and what's on them??

OK well I am fairly hard to satisfy when it comes to plants I want. Most the new things I want are newly collected aroids and not yet named. As well as hybrids or forms out of Thialand for other crazed collectors like myself. When your as crazy as I am you list.
I have had old list a mile and a half long Now days the list stay around 50 or so plants but I always have a top 5. Well most on my list most people do not know exist names like cytrosperma culcasia podlasia and other odd aroids, many with out names just old pictures that seem to have no info. Their is one that really sticks out on my list that I have seen many people grow and for some reason I am never able to get a hold of one. That is the true canna Druban. Durban is not tropicanna with its orange flowers. Durban has red flowers a bit slower and taller. I have gotten it from ebay with pics only to grow out tropicanna as well as trades. Does anyone have this one?? I would be very interested in it. Another plant on my list is Amorphophallus maxwellii I have had 5 chances to get this plant by friends only to have someone get them first. Always a pain but heck I need a goal i guess. Last but not least is Philodendron spiritus-sancti I can probably get this but at the moment I don't have 1000.00 dollars or more to drop for it. I am sure I can think of more but most are obscure odd aroids on the far reaches of the earth. I figure to make this interesting I will add a pic of one of the plants I am currently hot on the trail of. I have been after some plants for more than 7 to 9 years. This one I have been after 3 years and am closing in on it fast. I hope LOL

I have found it online from a couple of places and considered buying it, but havent done so yet. The price is a little pricey, about twenty bucks. If I do buy it, I will be happy to send you some.

I know I have seen it around online before. What is it called?

This photo was from Thialand. Were have you seen it?? This is not a blood banana. As fas as I know non are in the US and it usually sells for 500.00 to 1000.00 a plant. So if you seen it for 20.00 I would want to know lol.

boy that sure looks like a nana

Here are some links:

http://www.alohatropicals.com/MusaBananas_OrnamentalBananas.html

This one doesnt have pictures but tells of one having deep burgandy leaves dappled w/ green...
http://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/Bananas.htm

http://tytyga.com/bananas/pg30.htm

Not quite, but close...
http://www.monrovia.com/PlantInf.nsf/0/257e4061cb7a89138825684d0071e603?OpenDocument

Do you have a specific cultivar for it? Is it musa or ensete? We can hunt it down for you, but need to know a few 'minor' details!

Non on the links are exactly it. Their is ensete murellii some red on it and then zebrina some blotched red. The pic from Ty Ty is actually under the leaf. I should note that this company has a bad rep and I have been burned a few times by them. Many musa species have red blotching most species will lose this as it matures But this form seems to keep it till adult. Aparently much more red than any other known.

somewhere along the line I've gotte confused. Are we talking about a red leaf canna or a red leaf banana?????

Its a red banana that I am after as well as Durban a canna that looks like tropicanna with red flowers. Sorry it is getting confusing.

wow brian you know how to tease me. Ill get right on it.

Jerry

thank you. now that all's clarified, I want them both, too. lol

Fine! I did find Canna 'Durban' and yes it has red flowers - http://www.hawaiianbotanicals.com/cannasandtaros.html

http://botanictreasures.com/PlumeriaPeople/cannalist.html

Try this for banana - http://www.seedman.com/banana.htm
The Ornamental Christmas Banana?? - Getting closer....

I know I have seen a picture just like yours somewhere. I will have to check my Favorites on my home pc. Here at work, I am having no luck finding anything.

Thanks!

here is my "want list of tropicals":
AE AE banana
chinese yellow banana
bougainvillea red fantasy
variegated shrimp plant
costus barbatus
costus speciosus variegated
kaempferia gilbertii
zingiber spectabile beehive ginger
heliconia orthotrica imperial
heliconia rostrata
heliconia rostrata dwarf
variegated pineapple
variegated clivia
hymenocallis littoralis variegated
plus the 2 you are talking about lol
ok i will stop there lol but i could go on and on. when i get the money i will be geting some of these but that wont be until spring i hope someone else has a wish list too lol
thxs for starting this maybe i can find some here for my gardens next year

bw, I was talking about the red Durban for twenty bucks, not the banana. I would really like to know which banana you have pictured. I have never seen one that red . I do have some that have a lot of red, but not that much. Moretz, I have chinese yellow bananas. I have a huge one which has about twenty babies around it. It grows differen t from regular bananas, so I am not sure how to seperate. I also have spiral ginger, but not the one you mention.

rylaff
i think you cut them from the mother plant like you do the other nanas but not sure and the ginger you're talking about what color is it? plmk and what you want to trade for them if trading? plmk and thxs

Brian,
If you do find it, you have to let us know! You must! So we can get one, too... I know I still have found it somewhere and I have been digging around, but I think it will be one of those items that you find only when you stop looking for it.

On a different note, do you have any white cannas? My MIL told me that in Ecuador they have white ones. I still have to plan a trip down there and figure out how to come back home with all sorts of green things. I hate starting from seed but I may have to.

I have a hybrid white canna. Their is a species in equador aparently extremely hard to grow. I am very interested in getting seed of it. Aparently it has a good smell to it which is not seen in many cannas and could be extremely useful if breed into others.

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Cool - when she goes back I will put in a request. I will see if she can send seed and/or plants. It may be tough because of Customs but I know that they are a major exporter to the US for flowers and plants, so it might be easy enough. I will keep you posted!

rylaff
this is what i found out i hope this helps you:


gently dig the ground between the pups and the mother stalk. If there are roots, cleanly separate the pups. If not, wait an extra couple of months and reiterate the process!

thxs moretz

Moretz, I will check out my pups and see if any can come off. They dont grow like regular bananas so I wasnt sure. Here is a pic of my spiral ginger.

rylaff
yes i would love to have both if possable plmk what youre looking for and thxs good luck on the bananas
moretz

bwilliams, Are these two in the photo close to what you are looking for? I saw them at the King IX plant show in Bangkok last week. The big one's about 5000 Bahts while the smaller one's 3000 Bahts. ($1 = 40 Bahts).

Any luck I can get one? email me off list

pugturd@alltel.net

I would have gotten both of them if I were there. I love the new aglaonemas coming out of Thailand also. Do know chanrit or homes I am good friends with them both aroid collectors.

wow i want one as well i would have bought them bots p.s. "Brian" i finally got everything worked out o those banana seeds ill be out when they get here.

Jerry

were you able to get 100 also? If you can I would want them and will pay you when you get hiere. THANKS

interesting bwilliams, but I think mine is better

http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/92622/

I did buy canna Durban from Travena Cross nursery a few years ago, and it is extremely slow to increase. I'm not too sure about the red flowers, perhaps a brighter shade of orange, the leaves are the very colorful ones. I have two from splitting, but didn't get them repotted this year and didn't do too well, they get thru the winters in a cold greenhouse. It must have taken 3 years to be able to divide it. It is a nursery I would trust to be selling the correct plant. I also have Black Knight, and by comparison its a race horse to a donkey for increasing.

yes i got 200 total on the way i cant wait lol see ya soon


Jerry

bwilliams, In fact I would like to buy one myself. Since this banana's still very expensive, I decided to wait. I guess it will be about 1000 Bahts within a year or two or so. The show was already over a week ago, I do not know where I can contact the seller. Anyway there will be a number of plant show at this time of the year, I will keep you inform. I do not know chanrit or homes.

I heard this banana will be sold in the USA this spring but limited. Not sure by who though. Brian if you get ahold of a source let me know...

I know of only one person with this plant in the USA. He recently got it and I doubt it will be in the trade very soon. Their is also a black form with dark stems and a yellow form. A few of my friends in thailand also showed me pics of about 4 new variegated bananas. The coolest one having red stems and variegated leaves. Kukiat you should look for Homes he has a very nice nursery I hear and is a good friend. He visits the USA a few times a year for plant shows. I will be very suprized if this plant hits market next year. But with TC who knows.

I have just been trawling thru jungleseeds, they have musa nagensium, with dark purple red pseudostems, could this be the black form? They also have a new species from India with violet flowers, both on my list

http://www.jungleseeds.co.uk/SeedOrders/enter.html?lmd=38703.704271

bwilliams check with Tatiana at TopTropicals.com. They started importing from Thiland last year and have already set up plans for a trip in spring 2006. She has a wish list on her site for you to post your wants or you can e-mail her directly

now for my wish list. Pretty much everything for birds, butterflies and hummers since I am basically starting over.

Gingers any- had about 20 varieties

Justicias/shrimp plants any- had 8 varieties

Clerodendrums any- had 8 varieties

Berry/small fruit producing trees, mulberry, crabapple, fig, serviceberry, hollys, black cherry , PawPaw , hawthornes, flying sumac, buckeye trees etc I lost

Passifloria Insence and Maypop

Aristolochias had 5 varieties


Cupheas had 5 varieties

Assorted flowering vines- senico confusus, yellow butterfly vine, queens wreath, jasmines, snail and corkscrew vines etc I lost- had about 20 varieties

Perennials- Pentas, Asters, Rudbekias, Purple Coneflowers, Firespike had 4 colors, Russelias Sarmentosa and Equiformis, ballerias had 3 kinds, Agastaches had 6 varieties, salvias to numerous to name, and the list goes on and on

donna,

i can get you this spring
pentas,asters,rudbeckias,i have red firespike that i can send a cutting in spring,salvias,jasmine also all in spring. please email me back in the spring ok? and i will help you out as much as i can ok? but please remind me of the things i listed here lol
moretz

AnaM149! - I looked at one of the links you had listed above and found a ginger with my daughters name. I have a garden with something about each family member, but my daughter's name is Taira (pronounced Tara) and FINALLY I found a plant that has her name, it's one of the gingers!!! She'll be thrilled she finally gets a spot in the garden! I'm still looking for a Bohemia after Dark daylily, but found a Crown of Bohemia coleus, in honor of my dad who passed away this past year, and was Bohemian (Czech)
Thanks for the link! (And I really NEEDED a darn good reason to order another plant! )
;)
MerryMary

Hi- I am outside of Houston so I think I have simillar growing conditions and can make available some of the plants you are looking for:

Available now: K. Rotunda, a pink flowering banana- simillar to yellow, Hedychium coronarium (white) lovely fragrance, Curcuma petiolata (Hidden Ginger), Justicia brandegeana Yellow Queen, Justicia spicigera, Clerodendrum ugandense, Clerodendrum bungei (pink), Passiflora Incense

Possibly have chinese yellow banana- have to check and see if they are still viable, possibly Snail vine have to check to see if the cuttings survived the recent weather

In the spring will have cuttings of the following available if you are still looking to replace what you lost or Santa didn't find your wish list: Justicia brandegeana red, Justicia brandegeana Tutti Fruiti, Justicia fulvicoma, Justicia aurea, Clerodendrum wallichii, Justicia brandegeana V.

Let me know if you are interestefd.

Melissa and April I would be very grateful for anything you can replace for me.

Melissa spring will be fine.

April I can recieve from you as soon as we go back into a warm snap. In mid to low 30's now for lows this week. Will let you know when we expect a warmer week. Let me know postage and I will send a check or pay pal it to you which ever you prefer. Thank you so much

Let me know when the weather is warm enough and a check is fine.