A challenge game!!!

santoury · #1 08-25-2008, 06:28 PM

OK, I thought this would be fun to try.

I challenge you to get me any of the following. You will be rewarded with plants in return

*FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR OWN - we can help each other get our dream plants* (To limit length of this thread, please limit your comments to actual "haves or wants.") If you want to start a conversation to set up a trade, let's do that via PM, so that our lists are all easily readable.

Dove Tree
Strawberry Tree
Jacaranda Tree
Variegated Kentucky Coffee Tree
Variegated Mimosa Tree
Variegated Rose of Sharon
Variegated Bird of Paradise (Read: NOT Heliconia)
Joshua Tree (Must be beyond the fragile stage.)
Australian Grass Tree
Baobab (Named, if possible.)
Encephalartos (Named, if possible.)
Any Zamia, or Cycas sp.
Palms that I do not have yet. I want a Palm collection

Sausage Tree
Chinese Fringe Tree
Loquat
Stephania
Thladiantha

I think that'll be good for now. We can always add

Plant Monkey · #2 08-25-2008, 07:26 PM

santoury if the Baobab Tree I believe is the Up-Side Down Tree I'll look it up thru google.

santoury · #3 08-25-2008, 07:29 PM

Yes, that is the one - Adansonia sp.
Do you have some?

angmf2233 · #4 08-25-2008, 07:35 PM

Saw the joshua tree online very pretty. Did ya see the post for www.forestfarm.com. They seem to have a good bit and prices are not bad. I could spend lots of time lookin at the stuff. Just not enough hrs in the day.Good luck!

Plant Monkey · #5 08-25-2008, 07:37 PM

Yep just as I thought it was! "Adansonia digitata" known as "The Tree of Life" as well as "The Up-side down Tree".

Plant Monkey · #6 08-25-2008, 08:03 PM

santoury I have both Rose of Sharon & Kentucky Coffee Tree, altho I switched the Coffee Tree seed off my wants into haves I need to find the haves box. The Rose of Sharon seeds have not yet gone to seed I may need to see a pic of of them in variagated. I could send the Kentucky Coffee Tree seeds to you when I find them this week.

santoury · #7 08-25-2008, 08:06 PM

Thanks for your response, although I am slightly confused by your posting.
Do you have variegated Rose of Sharon, and variegated Kentucky Coffee Tree, or just the green variety?

This brings a valid point. For my variegated "wants" - they cannot be seed, as the percentage of variegated offspring will be very low, or zero.

So far, no luck on my list!

Plant Monkey · #8 08-25-2008, 08:19 PM

The green!

tho that was why I asked for a pic of both if variegated of the leaves were colored differently and compare leaves. talk of variegated confuses me at times cos I never seen or learned the differance in it. I'am sorry for taking up too much time.

santoury · #9 08-25-2008, 08:28 PM

Plant Monkey - don't worry about spending time - this place is supposed to be all about learning, supposed to be....

Variegated refers to the leaf having blotches, splashes, stripes, bands (you get the idea?) of a different color other than the usual. Most variegated plants have white coloration on the leaf, but some have yellow, another shade of green, pink, red, blue-gray, silver, etc...

So, to clarify, a variegated Maple, for instance, would have a green leaf, with white markings on the leaf.