Cardinal Climber

Thanks for the offer to possibly collect some seeds of the Ipomoea sloteri. Here are 2 reference photos which should help to clarify the difference between the still immature and fully ripe seedpods. green seedpod visible on the right - seeds are still developing and not yet ripe http://lh3.ggpht.com/qFfB4MWQDH1srDbob8Tht3ltGDEMRyqZzVBq1l7guQ2VWs418QZQMkJl7U6CJ1fB9iU3mKL8C52TRm5GQIgGGQ dried seedpod http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2005/10/02/htop/38262c.jpg seeds are inside and ready to harvest - just remove entire pod and crunch them by rolling around in your fingers and the dark seeds will come out...the seeds will be hard and you won't damage them by removing the outer pod wall...usually only 1 or 2 seeds in the I.sloteri capsules... fully dry and ripe seeds of Ipomoea sloteri http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2005/10/04/tubbss5/bf9fce.jpg

There is an old fashioned variety that is MIA and if you can take a photo early and how it changes throughout the day, that would be ideal...but likely not practical for most people... I grow and collect all species and cultivars of Morning Glories (for over 50 years) and am familiar with most...including how the lighting can affect the color, but, still I know when I see something unusual... I thought it might be growing as a self-sowing strain, but if the seeds are being sourced commercially (and possibly from different sources) , it likely wouldn't turn out to be the same...

The color on the plant shown looks unusual to me and I would be very interested in seeds if they could be collected from off of the same exact strain... Please contact me privately if possible...

You're welcome...

Cardinal Climber Ipomoea sloteri = an allotetraploid species derived from I. ×multifida http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?402182 Ipomoea x multifida has synonym status only in relation to Ipomoea sloteri Ipomoea x multifida is a sterile diploid which was only reproduced by cuttings and did not produce any seeds. The 2nd photo here http://lh3.ggpht.com/qFfB4MWQDH1srDbob8Tht3ltGDEMRyqZzVBq1l7guQ2VWs418QZQMkJl7U6CJ1fB9iU3mKL8C52TRm5GQIgGGQ shows a seedpod developing on the right which indicates that the plant shown must be Ipomoea sloteri and cannot be Ipomoea x multifida There is no Ipomoea x multifida still known to exist, although it was the diploid progenitor of the tetraploid Ipomoea sloteri.

very nice flower