Mucuna sempervirens first flowers

[charlie]

Well you are a mammal! give it a go!!

Anyway I am betting against the future as I was impressed with the look of it and got hold of some seeds :)

[MartinNicklin]

They germinate very readily Charlie.

[Chad]

Stephen Ryan has footage of one in Madeira.

The link will probably not work for long as Facebook moves on.

Chad
ps. link updated

[MartinNicklin]

That one’s nearly as good as mine Chad. Haha!

[charlie]

Well as the saying goes "There is no fool like an old fool" one of my two seeds has germinated so just got to deny the kids their inheritance for a decade or so!

[MartinNicklin]

Charlie you will be pleased to know for your sales that they root very readily from cuttings. I just cut a few branches of thicker wood (about pencil thickness), cut them into sections, shoved them in and they rooted and sent up new growth within a month or so. I think they may flower younger than mine did it’s just that I let mine ramble everywhere instead of hard pruning it to develop thicker wood and I think they flower on the thicker wood. At least mine did.