Balloon Milkweed Is Asclepias Physocarpa
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| Balloon Milkweed plants |
volition feed lots of monarch butterfly caterpillars this fall.
Asclepias physocarpa was then slow to starting fourth dimension from seed that nosotros were able to donate a apartment of plants to Muskogee's butterfly house, Papilion.
The seeds are available to purchase only ours were given to us past times our gardening friend, Jerry Gustafson.
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| Balloon Milkweed bloom clusters |
The flowers are unique inward that they hang inward footling clusters from those large-leafed plants, making a overnice demo when compared alongside how fossil oil the leaves are.
Sometimes the found is called Gomphrocarpus physocarpus. It is native to South Africa then inward the U.S. of A. it is perennial entirely equally mutual depression temperature equally zone 8 or 9. Definitely an annual hither inward Zone 7. Kathy Coburn the managing director of Papilion said that they croak volunteer plants inward the leap from the previous year's seed fall.
Collect your seed balls inward the autumn to found them belatedly wintertime inward a warmed environment. They need no mutual depression temperature stratification of course of didactics since they are from hot zones.
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| Asclepias physocarpa flowers |
Just distribute the seeds on damp, sterile potting mix as well as press them into the soil surface. I sprinkled the overstep alongside a footling sand or vermiculite to croak on the damping off virus away.
Unlike tropical milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa that takes FOREVER to germinate, this multifariousness takes entirely 2 weeks.