Hawaiian Woodrose

You can't see the buds from this distance, but it should be in full bloom by next weekend

wow, that could almost pass for first cousin to the infamous kuszu the way it's mounded and so full.

That is scary! I hope it doesnt get away from you and eat volusia county! You'd better post a pic when it blooms! I'm also having 2nd thoughts about germinating the seeds I have.

X

Heres mine Edric its 2 mnts old now

lol here it is

Wow! they grow that fast? That's amazing!

X

i started a nother its 3 weeks old and 2 feet tall

I remember kudzu where I used to live. They said they used it to help erosion on the roadsides where the soil was nothing but clay. I heard about one fellow who went on vacation for a few months and when he came back he had to cut his way to the front door.

BTW, that vine reminds me of a wooly mammoth. We have a kind of orange trumpet vine that will do the same thing if allowed any time with no twice a year pruning.

It took alot of work, preventitive fuguscidal treatment, every other day, hand watered every day,
if it gets down to 29 degrees for any spell at all, everything above ground is dead tissue, that's what happend last year.

If you squint at about 3 feet back it looks like the face on the shroud of turin...I like it...

First bloom from before I moved it under the Live Oak, Oct. 2004

Second bloom Feb. 2005

Dried flowers

The base

Holy Smokes!! The picture of the base is the actual size of the trunk of the H. Woodrose?? That's a tree...lol! I think you better watch out that it doesn't cover your house because I'm to far away to help you...lol! You must have tons of seeds.
:) Donna

Here's the other side of the tree

I love those pics, what I wouldn't do for a tree like that in my yard here in the desert. I remember the oaks I had in FL and the spanish moss and how well everything grew. Pls keep posting pics. It warms my heart to see them.

Here's a couple more I just took

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Hey edric,

The plant looks great...

What do you traditionally do with the seeds that it produces(?)...just curious...

TTY,...

Ron