Wanted: Fresh seeds of heliconias and musa ornata "Milky Way and variegated banana plants".

[clinton9]

Dear members,

                         I would like fresh seeds of heliconias and musa ornata "Milky Way", please.

heliconia angusta "Yellow Christmas"

heliconia angusta "Orange Christmas"

white heliconia bourgaeana (with white bracts)

musa ornata "Milky Way"

variegated banana plants

heliconia subulata "Africa" (pink fruits, tipped maroon, dark pink bracts)

heliconia tortuosa "Yellow Twister"  (yellow bracts, tipped red or all-yellow bracts)

heliconia spissa "Yellow" (yellow bracts)

heliconia subulata

heliconia collinsiana var velutina

 

For several past years, I had been looked for websites about seed suppliers selling seeds of heliconias and banana plants as Vivero Anones and TheTopicalFlowerShop were permanently closed, left me nowhere for me to buy heliconia seeds and banana plant seeds.  Can you please help me.

[mnorell]

Hi Clinton, it's very nice to see you here after an absence of eight years! Can you give us all an update on your Heliconia trials and what has or hasn't succeeded for you?

I think your best bets are to contact Carla Black in Panama, and in Australia, Ann Cains and Bruce Dunstan, all prominent figures in the Heliconia Society, and probably also quite a number of others in the Queensland nursery industry who might have seed to sell. Perhaps also contact Colton Collins at Plant Group Hawai'i, he usually sells just rhizomes but I assume he has plentiful seed on his plants if he's willing to sell it. I'm not sure what kind of limitations you have on seed importation or any of the above folks may have in export restrictions.

There is also a tropical plant society in Sydney (I've seen it on facebook) that has members growing H. rostrata and several others, you might look into that group and see if someone has seed they can send you.

Some of the plants you're requesting are quite rare, so you might need to first determine anyone who even has these growing as plants in the first place. I don't know why but the orange H. angusta seems completely absent in cultivation here in the U.S. Only yellow and red can be found in my experience. H. spissa (even standard red) is also inexplicably almost unknown here. Have you looked into H. lankesteri? That may be a great one, as it comes from very high elevations, though it is also I think quite scarce...but it is in cultivation. Also quite a few of the H. griggsiana cultivars grow at quite cold elevations.

[clinton9]

Hi Michael,

                   It's very nice to hear from you. I only have heliconias  subulata, spissa, bourgaeana, tortuosa, schiedeana, angusta cv Red Christmas and hybrid nutans X tortuosa in my gardens in my home by Karaka Road, Thames.

 

I been trying to get fresh seeds of white heliconia bourgaeana (See photo) from few people in Facebook, but all people were scammers and I were disappointed about I contacted scammers instead of honest seed suppliers as I really wanted fresh seeds of white heliconia bourgaeana, and now I am very sad and I did not know how to get fresh seeds of white heliconia bourgaeana....Can you please help me ???

 

I readily contacted Bruce Dunstan in Facebook, but he had never replied at all...useless man.

 

I tried Ann Cains in Facebook, but no luck, with 5 people with same names.

 

I joined Tropical Plant society in Sydney in Facebook, and I will wait to be accepted.

 

I contacted Plant Group Hawai'i and I am waiting for answer.