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- From: Bob.Batson@mtask.omahug.org (Bob Batson)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: a question about seeds
- Message-ID: <16.2b6122d4@axolotl>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:29:26 CST
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- edmund@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Rucker) writes:
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- > On the subject of seeds and state boundaries, I have a seedpod from
- > a "bat plant" (Tacca sp.) that mysteriously appeared in my luggage :-)
- > in Hawaii. ................................................
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- I can't help you with this plant - sorry.
-
- >
- > 2nd question, I loved the native Hawaiian gardenias that are
- > endangered and prohibited from export. The blooms are snow white
- > and crepe-paper textured, not creamy and fleshy like the domestic
- > gardenias, and powerfully fragrant. Anyone know of a mainland source?
-
- From the individual descriptions of the following mail-order companies in
- _CORNUCOPIA: A Source Book of Edible Plants_ by Stephen Facciola (ISBN
- 0-9628087-0-9), they're POTENTIAL sources. Since their catalogs aren't
- free, I suggest you write or telephone them.
-
- THE BANANA TREE [CAT - $2]
- 715 Northampton St. [MIN. ORD. - $6.50]
- Easton, PA 18042
- (215) 253-9589
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- HUROV'S TROPICAL SEEDS [CAT - $1]
- P.O. Box 1596
- Chula Vista, CA 92012
- (619) 426-0091
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- Bob Batson
- bob.batson@mtask.omahug.org
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