FINALLY! I managed to collect some Pink Bindweed (Convolvulus erubescens) Seeds!
This wonderful creeping plant has bright pink flowers and can literally survive being cut at the base or burnt to the ground. Not only that the tuber can apparently be eaten as was (is?) done by the local aboriginal tribes.
Last time I it flowered it only have a few flowers and the seed structures disappeared without a trace. I had thought the seeds were too small and rear to collect, but today I found that they are fairly large and contained in an almost bulb like structure, each one containing 2-4 seeds.
Common in the wild, but near impossible to buy! (and as usual with the plants I collect and grow I am the only one on Folia to have any :P)
Comments
graibeard wrote:
You should get in touch with MurriMurri and see if she is still active. There could be two of you :)
Posted on 08 Dec 09 (over 3 years ago)
Hypo_Mix wrote:
well ok, the only one to turn up in a search then :)
Posted on 08 Dec 09 (over 3 years ago)
Francesco wrote:
If It is the one that I know, it is a bad weed after established! Be careful! ;.-)
Posted on 16 Jan 10 (over 3 years ago)
Hypo_Mix wrote:
noup, there are a quite few bind weeds, this one is native to my area.
Posted on 14 Feb 10 (over 3 years ago)
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