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Post by castanea on Jan 29, 2011 17:25:18 GMT -5
Hausa groundnut: nothing yet, but I have more time in the winter to search thoroughly. And there's a lot of interesting stuff to be tried...  Don't I know it!!!!!! BTW assuming that you do foraging as well as ordering (i.e. that you somtimes try and bring edible/useful native wild plants you happen to find into you care) I have an addional small request for you (and for any other European members who happen to be follwing this thread). I have heard tell that, in some parts of Southern Europe there is a strain of the domestic vetch ( Vicia satvia) which produces cleostomagous subterrenean pods in addion to the aboveground ones. If anyone comes across any of this could they let me know and possibly work out some sort of seed swap? Also, Vigna vexillata produces underground tubers. |
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Post by jasonpadvorac on Apr 19, 2017 23:25:02 GMT -5
Bump! Has anyone had any luck tracking down Tylosema esculentum? ARS GRIN has an accession - but it is unavailable. There is a seller on eBay offering single nuts for ~$20... but who knows if that is legit or not, and also they are not in the United States.
Anybody found anything?
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 20, 2017 6:00:10 GMT -5
I've always looked at that ebay seller with skepticism and would not buy from him. It isn't just that he is located outside the US (which, of course brings up questions of whether the stuff would even make it into the country) or the expense (Tylosema is not self fertile, so you'd need at least two seeds minimum if you were lucky, and since it is a weird sort of dioecios too, the actual number of seeds you'd need to ensure further production is indeterminate but probably fairly large) It's that, if you look at all of his offerings, you'll notice he actually has TWO addresses with his auctions, with some sourced out of Romania and others out of Portugal. That sends off serious warning flags to me (I know reliable sellers who in fact cross borders near them to mail packages so as to take advantage of lower postal rates, but Romania and Portugal are no where near each other and the whole thing sounds like one of those "pay me here, and I will send it (or more accurately, pretend to send it) there.) Plus a few of his photos seem to be photo-shopped (look at the header picture for his Carolina watermelon. Besides that being well above the size of even the largest watermelon, there is no way a watermelon that big would be perfectly round www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-seeds-CAROLINA-CROSS-var-watermelon-Citrullus-lanatus-10-fresh-seeds-/172150785586?hash=item2814fc8632:g:-zwAAOSwZtJW-rCD |
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