Pisgah

This is a nice one for those of us exposed to somewhat hard freezes. Overview: Foliage: Seed Pods: D. leptolobus does well in hotter climates as well. It is particularly interesting for those of us with short growing seasons. It flowers and sets seed profusely.

This is a first for me. I've never seen a T. iboga flower in person. Anyone know how long these usually take to set fruit? Looks like the base may actually be swelling already.

I have found them very easy to germinate. Sprinkle on free draining. sterile soil. Keep moist and humid until they germinate, then give them more air flow. Standard plastic bag, or lidded tub would work. As far as moisture goes, they actually like a fair amount of moisture. Particularly if the air is hot & dry, they can tolerate wet feet. They are not fussy, but more water is better than treating them like a xerophyte. When they set flower and set seed, the process for getting seeds is simple. Just wait until their small seed pod swells and starts to dry. This should start happening Summer of their second year, in my climate that is. And so long as the winters aren't too cold, this plant should reseed itself rather easily.

There is one caveat that I would add regarding USDA restrictions. While 99 out of 100 times it isn't an issue, I have had Acacia seeds stopped by the USDA due to a ban on their import from Australia & Oceana. This is not a customs issue, but an agricultural one, so it is not as vigorously enforced. If these are rare Acacia seeds, I would do as Auxin mentions and declare the contents as a gift. Instead of listing the species of seed in the declaration, just put the word 'seeds' on it.

gusto! Woot!

I can't help with the ID, but the shots are great. That profile one of the bark cut looks like freakin' sashimi.

Happy day, bro! Hope this next spin around the sun is a good one.

A mature plant would have a very high number of tips. Very bushy plant. More tip trimming would make more branching. Since I live in a colder climate, my experience is not fully applicable to Australia. With cold here, Heimia dies back nearly to the ground. I essentially do a coppice cut on the old branches. This encourages tons of branching in the Spring. Even if you don't need to cut it back due to cold, a dramatic pruning would encourage significant tip production. Pruning time would be near to the beginning of active growth, not before winter if you are in a colder climate.

Soak them for 2 or 3 days tops. I think the peroxide is very helpful with longer soaks. Transplant the ones that swell, and hit up the others with more hot h2o. Any seed with holes should probably be tossed. Most commercial seed I've seen in the past few has a lot of insect damage holes.

Sort of depends how fresh the seed is. Recently form the pod, and you don't need to do much. Most seed is pretty dry, though, so the same kind of hot water treatment you would give an acacia would be good. You could file or nick the seeds, like you describe, as well. I just like the hot water treatment better. Hot h2o, not quite boiling, poured over seeds in a metal cup. Metal cup dissipates heat quickly. Let them sit. Repeat on the ones that don't swell in a couple days. Peroxide in the water while they are soaking isn't a bad idea.

Beautiful, and good luck!

I'm not in Aus, so I can't speak very well to conditions there for this species. However, cold & wet is how they like to germinate in general. Hot & wet no good. Plant in autumn, right before some rain when it will be cool. direct sow into the ground, and thin when spring arrives before they bolt & while they are still in veg.

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Pretty sure the Izmir mix is a combination of Turkish Commercial, Taz, Persian white, & some others that had a chance to cross over the course of a couple of years in a cottage garden somewhere. So a question of potency on those is too variable to really say. Some really good ones in the mix, though. Afghan is great, Persian White is quite good as well.

FWIW, I just had a very pleasant experience with toasted, basified colei seeds smoked with black caapi leaf. No color shift or geometry, but an entry way above just smoked caapi leaf. Worth more exploration at the seed level. mass of seed material in 1 spliff (shared by 2 people) was approx mass of 2 anadenanthera seeds. No vicious peanut smoke, so there is room to move up in mass without collapsing the lungs, it seems.

It will be fine, so long as it has developed a large enough root sytem. When this species is used for firewood fuel, it is often coppice cut. Usually this is done with a mature plant, but essentially they are cut back to stubs and they flush out new branches in a bushier form.

FWIW, it is very easy to sustainably harvest Sass albidum. Runner roots are collected, leaving intact main tree and tap root. Once large colonies naturalize, this is a great & sustainable species.

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It is described in Schultes work, and has been used as a sedative, anti-anxiety plant, used in the treatment of "susto," a sort of existential angst. Any idea of pharmacological action?

Pics of the plant... linky There are a few other pics in the photostream.

I have a fair amount of experience sending from the US to Oz. I don't even bother attempting to send plant material, but with proper quarantine arrangements it can be done. Expensive and not worth the effort for a cutting or two. Coming from Oz to me is usually not a problem, I just make sure that it is nothing dodgy with DEA. Seeds are another matter, when I have sent seeds to Oz labeled as an AQIS permissible species I have had no problem. On importing seeds to US from Oz, aside from the usual labeling requirements afforded us by our DEA, I found out the hard way that there is a USDA restriction on the importation of Acacia spp. from Australia and Pacific Oceana. Some potential pathogen that could affect some food crop (forget which one). Not always stopped if they are labeled as such, but it does happen. I got a very nasty note from the people trying to protect my food supply. I highly recommend that anyone setting up cross pacific trades be VERY familiar with AQIS, and specific territory import restrictions as well. Western Australia is even tougher than AQIS. And yes, there seems to be a greater probability of legal problems for Australians who get caught than Americans.

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I checked my plant, and I'm still a few weeks from open flowers. Will report back when they open.

Will report back tomorrow! Got some flowers coming on...

This is intriguing. I have found aya brews with my own carth leaf (approx 30g per dose) to be active, sort of tryptamine like, but these were with heavy caapi doses. The same leaves were never capable of producing crystalline substances upon extraction. There was a lilting, wave like nature to those aya experiences. Hmm... This would explain a lot.