FREE: RARE GARLIC VINE (Mansoa Alliacea)

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Yu will be bidding on 6 counts seeds of the rare Garlic Vine (Mansoa Alliacea).

Botanical Name: Mansoa alliacea . Common Name: 'Garlic Vine'. Synonyms: Cydista aequinoctialis. A beautiful flowering tropical vine native to Belize and Central America. Flowers twice a year and you will quite often find it covered with flowers. The flowers start off a purple color and change to a lighter shade of lavender with age. Eventually they will fade to almost white. You can have three different colors of flowers at the same time. The vine has a strong garlic odor, and is even used as substitute for garlic in food. The entire plant - roots, vine and leaves, is useful. In traditional medicine it is used to reduce fevers, treat colds, throat, and respiratory ailments. The plant is said to help get rid a homestead of bad luck. Easy to grow from seeds.


Germination: Soak seeds for about 2 hours then plant seeds on their sides leaving top edges slightly showing.

Lightly dust them with a small amount of soil.

Cover them and allow them warmth and filtered sunlight.

Lightly spray them with a misting bottle.

Allow an estimate of a month + for germination.

thanks for bidding, Gil