Is there any US nursery or individual grower that carries them? I don't think I've ever seen any offered for sale and they are so pretty. I've read that they are difficult to propagate from cuttings. Is that why they are so scarce? Are they difficult to grow?
Karyn
Hi Karyn: I'm grinning and lol. Even tho cousin Sanguinea tests our patience and frustrates us with waiting for it to do something, we still search for another of the same ilk! But it sure is a pretty thing. So if you do find a source, know you are not alone in this addiction <smile> and share the info so the rest of us can fill the NEEEEd
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Los Angeles County, CA
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Heat Zone:8/9
Is that the ones that have to have high altitudes to do well? I was looking for a pic of it and see only one by googling it. Its nice slim little tubular shape is very different.
Enchanted gardens carries it in Santa rosa CA,but they sale wholesale& I didn't find the 2 nurserys that carry it out there.I know one has a botanical garden. my friends mom was telling me about this one when she came visiting her son. Its in san fransico area.
this person on EBay has carried it from time to time.somewhere on his page is a link to active bids. He never has what I want,when got money.
Thanks for the links. Have you bought from Native Habitat before? They have some interesting plants. I would be surprised if Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco didn't have a B. vulcanicola. That is one of my favorite botanical gardens though I haven't been there in a number of years. Strange and Wonderful Things carries some great plants but their auctions go through the roof. I just love to look at what he's offering even if I can't buy it. lol Let me know about the plant quality at Native Habitat if you've bought from them.
Thanks again,
Karyn
Unless NHE has started again, they quit growing brugs a few years ago due to a bad virus that got into their stock plants. I've never had experience with any of their other plants so would be interested in learning what kind of size their plants are sold as.
Karyn I believe the only thing close to a vulcanicola in the US is the cultivar that started at Strybing Arboretum, #621. It is claimed (the line of ascension may have been broken by loosing the plant for a while) that Tommy Lockwood labeled the plant as a vulcanicola, but this plant looks very similar to a small sang or flava, and very different from the true vulcanicolas shown by the Preissels in Brugmansia and Datura. So it is thought by some to possibly be a sang-vulcanicola hybrid.
It's the same plant sold by Strange Wonderful Things on Ebay as "vulcanicola". I don't think anyone in the US has or is selling a true vulcanicola right now.
Tom H.
Marysville, WA Zone 8a
This message has been edited by Grrrnthumb on Dec 1, 2007 8:11 PM
I last talked to Lee the year he Charley gutted his GHs out.He did have one house not affected.I've ordered plants from him.Only drawback was he could not take credit card orders over the internet,they had to be faxed. but that may have changed.I last ordered durring hurricane charley.He called and we changed shipping method to get it out of state faster.
I'm sending donna a package monday.when I call her i'll ask what place it was. Her son could not think where the garden was...says she vists too many. He does good remembering his shoes& hat when he leaves....much less asking his mom where she seen a plant.We are both working on her son for haveing him gardening.I'm supplying& shes gave him a deadline.
I'd be there right now if I thought it was safe. Thousands of Columbian refugees still cross the border into Ecuador to escape the fighting right in that area.
Someday I plan on standing on the top of Purace, the volcano where vulcanicola got it's name, near Popayan Columbia: http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband#mvt=m&q1=purace&trf=0&lon=-76.439953&lat=2.395351&mag=9
Yes, and imagine getting safely into & out of the area (no doubt paying a few bribes along the way) with cuttings & seeds, only to deal with U.S. Agriculture while trying to bring them into the U.S.!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
My stepson was just there on a business trip and I worried the whole time he was gone you hear so much about kidnapping there. If I wasn't so worried I might have thought to ask him to smuggle us back some cuttings, lol. I have searched the internet looking for you Karyn but the only places that claimed to have them say they are out of stock and they are still trying to propagate them for sale so they must be very difficult.
Well, US Ag wasn't at the Mexican border the day I came back... But that calls for a long drive, even driving to the Belizean border takes awhile. However, R.E. Schultes I'm not, I don't think I really want a vulcanicola bad enough to get lead poisoning in the process...
But maybe I'll be feeling more adventurous when things cool off down there.
I used to bring plants, seeds and even whole fruit back from Belize all the time. I'd stick them in between pages of books or wrapped up in my luggage but that was before 9/11. I wouldn't dare try to bring anything back again. I wouldn't attempt to smuggle anything in a car either. It's tempting but not worth it. I can just imagine getting thrown in a foreign jail because I wanted a flower! lol It was bad enough being held at gunpoint at Schiphol Airport because the spelling of my name on my boarding pass was different then my passport, Karen instead of Karyn and that wasn't even a third world country!
Karyn
I was looking at the La Cocha Lagoon area in Colombia. This is where the only 2 pink true vulcanicolas were discovered. Apparently it was declared a Ramsar wetland site in 2001:
So at least the area is moderately protected until someone recovers cuttings or seeds or something. It would be great if Strybing or Harvard sent someone like Herrenhauser Garten did... I know, I'm a dreamer.. or obsessed, one of the two.
Even tho cousin Sanguinea tests our patience and frustrates us with waiting for it to do something, we still search for another of the same ilk!
But it sure is a pretty thing. So if you do find a source, know you are not alone in this addiction <smile> and share the info so the rest of us can fill the NEEEEd 
no way, my house is full.
