My experience matches your websites findings, John, that this species is difficult to propagate by cuttings. I posted some photos on the PBS Forum website showing my experiences with seeds, predation, and ultimately successful germination. Google image search identified the beetle in my photo as Megacerus discoidus. https://www.bugguide.net/node/view/94943/ I'll go through my old note books to see if I recorded any of the other locations where I had previously collected the seeds. Dennis in Cincinnati On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM <john@oltarakwa.co.uk> wrote: > We've just published a Plant Portrait of Ipomoea pandurata in Curtis's > Botanical Magazine. It's available at > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/… > Click on 'open in figure viewer' to see the fine painting by Christabel > King and other illustrations. > > Unfortunately we didn't know about the seed parasitism, which would have > been an interesting piece of information to include. > > John Grimshaw > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> On Behalf Of Dennis > Kramb via pbs > Sent: 28 September 2026 00:12 > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Cc: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Ipomoea pandurata > > I checked a local school that had it growing around their abandoned tennis > courts twenty years ago... the courts are still there (even more abandoned > than ever) and the Ipomoea is still there too but apparently so shaded now > by the trees that they didn't flower this year. lots of plants but no > seeds. > > Dennis in Cincinnati > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 5:27 PM Dennis Kramb <dkramb@gmail.com> wrote: > > > about twenty years ago i was collecting lots of seeds of this for PBS > > BX but what i didn't know was almost all of the seeds are host to a > > beetle larva egg. unless stored in freezing temps they hatch and eat > > the seed from within and emerge as an adult.... very unpleasant > > surprise to find a bag full of dead beetles and no viable seeds after a > few weeks! > > > > eventually i realized freezing them would stop the larvae from hatching. > > and then scarifying the seeds out of the freezer would get them to > > germinate before the larvae could harm them. but honestly I'd be > > nervous to ship overseas. I'm not even sure where to collect them, > > the wild stands i knew of are gone. but I'll have a look around. > > > > Dennis in Cincinnati > > > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 1:06 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > >> Hello out there in the US, > >> > >> Is there anybody who could collect some seeds of Ipomoea pandurata for > me? > >> > >> It might be considered a weed in the country of origin but at this > >> end of the world it is very sought after but very difficult to come > >> by. Please contact me privately if you can get seeds. > >> > >> Thank you > >> > >> > >> > >> Uli > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pbs mailing list > >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >> https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > >> PBS Forum latest: > >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…