FREE: 12 Bauhinia rufrescens (Orchid) Tree Seeds

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Orchid Tree seeds produce white/yellow flowers. Auction for 12 seeds, no plant is included in this auction. Bauhinia rufescens is a shrub or small tree usually 1-3 m high, sometimes reaching 8 m; bark ash-grey. Leaves bilobate, with semi-circular lobes. Flowers yellow to white and pale pink. Fruits aggregated, long, narrow pods, twisted, up to 10 cm long, obliquely constricted, shining dark red-brown, with 4-10 seeds each. Pods remain on the shrub for a long time. This tree likes the tropics or subtropics. In USA Florida - Texas (Deep South) or a green house.

Mean annual temperature: Over 40 deg. C, Mean annual rainfall: 400-1000 mm Soil type: B. rufescens is found on poor, arid, sandy, stony soils, as well as on deep clays. Seed storage behaviour; no loss in viability during 1 year in hermetic storage at 4 deg. C.
Zone 10 or 11 (google for more information).
These seeds have a good germination rate at approximately 75%. They need no special treatment. Plant 1/2 inch deep in good draining soil and keep moist. Germination takes place in 1 -5 days.