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Off-Topic Area => General Plants and Gardening => Topic started by: Arnold on October 11, 2022, 07:15:51 AM
From a Friend looking for some seeds:
I'm searching in this time for seeds of Ipomoea quamoclit ...I try it since many years but until now without success
Some seed sellers offer it ...but they are always wrong named
Here is the true plant ( Ipomoea quamoclit ):
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326361-2
That's the hybrid ( it is easy to get – Ipomoea x multifida ...it runs also under Ipomoea x sloteri ) ...this plant I have
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:269351-1
Try this
https://www.sunshine-seeds.de/product_info.php?products_id=45887&language=en
Or this
https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/6553
Or this
https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/ipomoea-quamoclit
Sorry they are all German or English sources. They at least show the correct picture.
Uli
Uli
That's fine, he's in Germany.
Usually you get the "right" plant if they offer white and pink forms, as those only exist of I. quamoclit, and not of x sloteri.
If anyone needs an American source: I got (back when it was possible correct quamoclit from Swallowtail
https://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/vines/cypress_vine.html
they also offer the x sloteri separately:
https://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/vines/cardinal_climber.html