Raphionacme bingeri (Zambia) SEEDS

Description

Raphionacme bingeri seeds offered here with Zambian provenance grow into a tuberous geophyte from the seasonally dry tropical biome with a range spanning from West Tropical Africa east to Uganda, placing this Zambian collection at the southern end of or beyond the typical distribution. Now treated in taxonomy as Raphionacme splendens subsp. bingeri, this member of Apocynaceae develops an underground or partly exposed tuberous caudex from which seasonal twining stems arise with small leaves and the characteristic small flowers of the milkweed subfamily. The tuber persists through dry season dormancy as the primary storage and survival organ. Family Apocynaceae.

Sharp drainage, warm conditions and a dry rest when dormant replicate the seasonally dry African conditions of its native range.

• Underground tuberous caudex the primary storage organ and caudiciform character
• Twining seasonal stems; small leaves; small star-shaped flowers
• Zambian provenance; species range W. Tropical Africa to Uganda; seasonally dry tropical
• Treated as R. splendens subsp. bingeri in current taxonomy; Family Apocynaceae
• Sharp drainage; warm conditions; dry dormancy rest

Raphionacme bingeri from Zambia is a geographically interesting collection at the southern extreme of a wide West-to-East African distribution an authentic wild-provenance tuberous caudiciform from the milkweed family for collectors of African Apocynaceae geophytes.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.