Agiseek home

Tropical Plant Seeds For Sale In Newport News

Become a Partner
Buffel Grass, African Foxtail Grass Cenchrus ciliaris
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel-grass or African foxtail grass; syn. * It was introduced in the 1930s into Arizona, United States, to provide grazing. It prefers light soils with a high phosphorus content.
  • Botanical Name: Cenchrus ciliaris
  • Species: ciliaris
  • Germination: 60%
  • Genus: Cenchrus
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
Virginia
Newport News
Bunya - Bunya Pine, Bunya Bunya, Bunya Pine, Bunya Bunya Tree, False Monkey Puzzle Tree Araucaria bidwillii
Price : CALL

* It is native to south-east Queensland with two small disjunct populations in northern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics. * The germinating seed produces an underground 'earth nut' which has a coconut-like flavour.
  • Species: bidwillii
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Genus: Araucaria
  • Botanical Name: Araucaria bidwillii
Virginia
Newport News
Yellowbells, Yellow Trumpetbush Tecoma stans
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. * Yellow Trumpetbush is an attractive plant that is cultivated as an ornamental . Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally...
  • Botanical Name: Tecoma stans
  • Common Name: Yellowbells, Yellow Trumpetbush
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Seeds Per Pound: 617,440
  • Species: stans
Virginia
Newport News
Coco Palm, Jelly Palm, South American Jelly Palm, Pindo Palm Butia capitata
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* The seed contains up to 45% of an edible oil, it is used mainly for margarines. * Butia capitata , also known as Pindo Palm or Jelly Palm , is a palm native to Brazil and Uruguay .
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Seeds Per Pound: 256
  • Quantity: 2.86 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Arecaceae
  • Common Name: Coco Palm, Jelly Palm, South American Jelly Palm, Pindo Palm
Virginia
Newport News
Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch Trichocereus peruvianus  Matucana
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

They prepared a brew called "achuma" , "huachuma" or "cimora" which was used during ritualistic ceremonies to diagnose the spiritual links to a patient's illness. * The active compound is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which was reported...
  • Species: peruvianus
  • Genus: Trichocereus
  • Germination: 40%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Purity: 98%
Virginia
Newport News
Roselle Hibiscus sabdariffa
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* The roselle ( Hibiscus sabdariffa ) is a species of Hibiscus native to the Old World tropics, used for the production of bast fibre and as an infusion . It is an annual or perennial herb or woody-based subshrub , growing to 2–2.5 m (7–8 ft) tall.
  • Common Name: Roselle
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Quantity: 0.99 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,139
  • Genus: Hibiscus
  • Botanical Name: Hibiscus sabdariffa
Virginia
Newport News
Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki Canavalia pubescens
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 packet

* Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 542
  • Common Name: Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki
  • Botanical Name: Canavalia pubescens
  • Genus: Canavalia
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 1
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
Virginia
Newport News
Sensitive Partridge Pea Chamaecrista nictitans
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. * Chamaecrista nictitans (Sensitive Partridge Pea, Small Partridge Pea or Wild Sensitive Plant) is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through...
  • Common Name: Sensitive Partridge Pea
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 33
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Virginia
Newport News
Lipstick Tree, Annatto, Achiote, Lipsticktree Bixa orellana
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Bees collect nectar from its flowers to make honey. * Annatto, obtained from the oily arils of the seeds is the world's second most important (after caramel) natural colorant (Mercadante and Pfander 1998), yielding yellow to red colors.
  • Botanical Name: Bixa orellana
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 130
  • Genus: Bixa
  • Quantity: 0.81 lb
  • Germination: 91%
Virginia
Newport News
Black Poui, Jacaranda, Blue Jacaranda, Green Ebony Tree, The Fern Tree Jacaranda mimosifolia     - Jacaranda chelonia    , Jacaranda ovalifolia
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Water extract of Jacaranda mimosifolia shows higher antimicrobial action against Bacillus cereus and Escherichia coli than gentamicin sulfate does. * Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to South America that has been widely planted elsewhere...
  • Common Name: Black Poui, Jacaranda, Blue Jacaranda, Green Ebony Tree, The Fern Tree
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Botanical Name: Jacaranda mimosifolia
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Species: mimosifolia
  • Family: Bignoniaceae
Virginia
Newport News
Tree Tobacco Nicotiana glauca
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The Cahuilla Indians used leaves interchangeably with other tobacco species in hunting rituals and as a poultice to treat swellings, bruises, cuts, wounds, boils, sores, inflamed throat, and swollen glands.
  • Germination: 40%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 618
  • Botanical Name: Nicotiana glauca
  • Height: 6-8 feet
Virginia
Newport News
Barbados Nut, Physic Nut Jatropha curcas
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

The cake can also be used as feed in digesters and gasifiers to produce biogas. * When jatropha seeds are crushed, the resulting jatropha oil can be processed to produce a high-quality biofuel or biodiesel that can be used in a standard diesel car or...
  • Height: 15 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 1.48 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 701
  • Species: curcas
Virginia
Newport News
Buffel Grass, African Foxtail Grass Cenchrus ciliaris
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cenchrus ciliaris (buffel-grass or African foxtail grass; syn. * It was introduced in the 1930s into Arizona, United States, to provide grazing. It prefers light soils with a high phosphorus content.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: ciliaris
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Height: 1-3 feet
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Botanical Name: Cenchrus ciliaris
Virginia
Newport News
Smooth-bark Mexican Pine Pinus pseudostrobus
Price : CALL

It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. * Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive names in Spanish, tree endemic to Mexico , 8...
  • Height: 40 - 80 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Common Name: Smooth-bark Mexican Pine
  • Family: PINACEAE
Virginia
Newport News
Slash Pine Pinus elliottii
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus elliottii , commonly known as the Slash Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , from southern South Carolina west to southeastern Louisiana , and south to the Florida Keys .
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Quantity: 1.12 lb
Virginia
Newport News
Norfolk Island Pine, Star Pine Araucaria excelsa     - Araucaria heterophylla
Price : CALL

* A distinctive conifer , a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae. * The tree is endemic to Norfolk Island , a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia , New Zealand and New Caledonia.
  • Species: excelsa
  • Common Name: Norfolk Island Pine, Star Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Genus: Araucaria
Virginia
Newport News
New Caledonia Pine, Cook Pine Araucaria columnaris
Price : CALL

The young leaves are needle-like, while the broader adult leaves are triangular and scale-like. The branchlets are covered with small, green, incurved, point-tipped, spirally arranged, overlapping leaves.
  • Common Name: New Caledonia Pine, Cook Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Height: 200 feet
  • Species: columnaris
Virginia
Newport News
Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion\'s Ear Leonotis nepetifolia
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of plant in the genus Leonotis and the family Lamiaceae (mint).
  • Purity: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 340,500
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 335
  • Species: nepetifolia
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Virginia
Newport News
Queen\'s Bird-of-Paradise, Bird-of-paradise, Queen\'s Bird-of Paradise Strelitzia reginae
Price : CALL

* Strelitzia reginae is a monocotyledonous flowering plant indigenous to South Africa . Common names include Strelitzia , Crane Flower or Bird of Paradise , though these names are also collectively applied to other species in the genus Strelitzia .
  • Common Name: Queen's Bird-of-Paradise, Bird-of-paradise, Queen's Bird-of Paradise
  • Species: reginae
  • Family: Strelitziaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
Virginia
Newport News
Bunya - Bunya Pine, Bunya Bunya, Bunya Pine, Bunya Bunya Tree, False Monkey Puzzle Tree Araucaria bidwillii
Price : CALL

* It is native to south-east Queensland with two small disjunct populations in northern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics. * The germinating seed produces an underground 'earth nut' which has a coconut-like flavour.
  • Height: 100-120 feet
  • Genus: Araucaria
  • Family: Araucariaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
Virginia
Newport News
New Caledonia Pine, Cook Pine Araucaria columnaris
Price : CALL

The young leaves are needle-like, while the broader adult leaves are triangular and scale-like. The branchlets are covered with small, green, incurved, point-tipped, spirally arranged, overlapping leaves.
  • Botanical Name: Araucaria columnaris
  • Common Name: New Caledonia Pine, Cook Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Species: columnaris
Virginia
Newport News
Peaches and Cream Main Crop Corn
Prices start at : 2.69 USD / each

Peaches and Cream MAIN CROP variety grows 6½ feet tall and produces 2 ears 7½-8 inches long with 16 rows of kernels. There are 2 strains of this most wonderful eating two-color corn.
  • Max Height (feet): 7
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Deer Resistant: No
Virginia
Newport News
Bidwell Casaba Melon
Prices start at : 0.99 USD / each

“Tastes like heavenly orange sherbert!” “Succulent, melt in your mouth flesh.” “Sublime flavor.” “Sweetest melon ever!” -- Bidwell Casaba melon continues to win rave reviews by all who grow it.
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Genus: Cucumis melo var. inodorus 'Bidwell'
Virginia
Newport News
Chinese Tallow Tree Sapium sebiferum     - Triadica sebifera
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

In these regions, the waxy coating of the seeds is used for candle and soap making, and the leaves are used as herbal medicine to treat boils. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 115
  • Quantity: 0.51 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Botanical Name: Sapium sebiferum dried berries
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,360
Virginia
Newport News
Rosemary
Prices start at : 0.89 USD / each

High in vitamin B6, iron and calcium. Perennial herb used in cooking, baking and to make fragrant oils and soaps.
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Spread: 2'
  • Zones: 6-10
Virginia
Newport News
Bi-Licious Hybrid Sweet Corn
Prices start at : 2.79 USD / each

Excellent mid-season variety. Disease resistant. 8'' ears on 6-7' stalks produce sweet, bi-color kernels.
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Deer Resistant: No
Virginia
Newport News
Oleander, White Oleander Nerium oleander  Alba
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant is commonly used for informal hedging in the Mediterranean. The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were sometimes treated...
  • Genus: Nerium
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 37
  • Germination: 63%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Apocynaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
Virginia
Newport News