Good day My name is Irene I am currently searching for Anthurium Seeds. I wonder if any you have this product or not. I've been searching a lot website but i couldn't find people/company/store that sells them. Please do tell me if you have Anthurium seeds, thank you very much for your attention .
Seems like everyone in SE Asia is wanting Anthurium seeds. I get at least 5 emails daily asking to buy them, and sorry, even though I grow many rare Anthurium species, seeds are not easily found. Most growers who spend the time to produce them don't wish to sell them. And there is a good reason. They grow them! A grower in the United States can easily get $20 to $100 for a nice species of Anthurium depending on the rarity. If one is lucky enough to produce seeds they would rarely be willing to sell them for a low price when they can grow the plants themselves and then sell the plants in a few years at a much higher price. There are growers in South Florida that do just that. But I promise, it is highly unlikely they will answer an email asking for seeds. They simply don't want to sell them. Most people do not realize Anthurium species require a natural insect pollinator to pollinate the spadix. And in most cases, that insect is "assigned". The plant produces a "perfume" that one particular species of insect can detect and drawn towards. It can be done by humans using a very light camel hair brush, but it is difficult to time. And in most cases, you can't just remove the pollen from the spadix and apply it to the female flowers. You must collect and freeze the pollen when it is produced and save it in a freezer until the next time the plant produces a spathe and spadix then apply it. And even that is difficult. And the total time can easily be well over one year. Why? The flowers of many Anthurium species are produced along the spadix and are very tiny. You need a very good magnifying tool to see them. The spathe itself is not a "flower", it is simply a specially modified leaf. Some species allow the male and female flowers to grow together up and down the length of the spadix but many of the rarer species do not. The female and male flowers are divided by a sterile zone intentionally to prevent self pollination. Nature is very clever! The female flowers normally become "receptive" first and that can be detected when the spadix begins to produce pheromones (scent, or perfume) and a light liquid. But you must be observant! If an insect that is appropriate for that species is present, and picks up pollen from another plant, the female flowers may then be pollinated. BUT, the male flowers often do not begin to produce pollen until well after the female flowers are spent. So unless you have already collected pollen and stored it in a freezer under special conditions, there is none available for you to use to pollinate the plant. Only a few collectors will have two or more plants of the same species so it is highly unlikely, even if you do have multiple specimens, to have both come into fertility at precisely the precise time when one is producing male flowers and the other is producing female flowers. It almost never happens in a collection. The pollen is also extremely fine and difficult to collect properly. The pollen has to be totally free of moisture and stored in a sealed tube until you are ready to use it. And few serious collectors will take the time to collect it and wait 7 months or more for another spadix to develop, then apply it. And if they do, they almost certainly won't wish to sell those seeds for a few dollars. Once pollinted, the spadix will produce berries in the next three months or so and those berries contain the seeds. As a result, seeds are rare! Especially in the rarer species that most of the folks in Indonesia and Southeast Asia are trying to buy. There are a few species that will self pollinate, but only a few. In the genus Anthurium there are several species which produce ripe fruit with viable seed without pollination. This phenomenon is known to botanists as the species being apomictic. Although I admire all of the collectors in that part of the world who are trying to acquire seeds, they are not readily available. I can tell you for certain, the talk on many aroid discussion boards in the US is they wish the email requests would stop. Most don't want o take the time to explain why the seeds are difficult to acquire. I collect many species and do not know of a single collector who will sell seeds. Not one. I sometimes have collectors from Europe, who are more inclined to take the time to learn how to pollinate by hand and spend the months required to do it, send me seeds of unusual species. But even that is rare. I'd suggest you spend your efforts in Europe looking for seeds. It seems to be a more common "hobby" to try to grow seeds over there. This may explain further: http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Anthurium buy Anthurium seeds.html And this may help you understand the complexities of Anthurium sp. better. http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Grow or Growing Anthurium species.html The alternative for folks from SE Asia is to buy the plants from a company called Ecuagenera in Ecuador. That company is licensed to legally ship plants almost anywhere in the world. And the rarest forms of Anthurium come from Ecuador. You can find them on the internet. When you receive the plants they will be minus all leaves for safety reasons, but they will grow new leaves much faster than you can grow an adult Anthurium from a seed. That can take many years. Good luck in your quest.
There are numerous reasons why you can't find Anthurium seeds to purchase. The chief is economic. The second is the time it takes to grow them. There are few growers of this genus in the United States that do so commercially. The demand is not high. If you and others were able to buy the thousands and thousands of seeds you seek you would flood the market with plants and put these businesses out of business. It has happened already. I'll give you a single example. Three or four years ago a species known as Anthurium veitchii would easily bring $100 in the United States. Today, growers cannot sell them for $6 to $10 per plant! That is because tissue culture companies took this relatively rare plant and created thousands and thousands of them. As a result, the market has crashed. And there are other plants in this genus that have done the same thing. I receive requests daily for up to 10,000 seeds at one time. Obviously, people think they are going to get rich on these plants. You won't. People think they will get rich because they see difficult to obtain specimens sell for up to $500 on eBay. But if they were easily available, the price would drop to next to nothing. It's called the law of supply and demand. As a result, commercial growers refuse to grow rare species in large quantity. They grow just enough to keep the demand high. Still, the majority of Anthurium in the United States sell for around $20. If people do as they are now doing in India and grow countless thousands of these plants the price will simply plummet. The Indian market is already affecting the Hawaiian Anthurium market. I know large growers in Florida who laugh at requests like this one. They are smart enough to protect their businesses and refuse to sell their seeds. They grow a few and throw the rest in the trash. Besides, many of the species in this genus do not make good house plants. They require a large greenhouse to survive. Plants like Anthurium veitchii, which is beautiful, die by the thousands because they will not grow in a house. Growing more rare specimens in large quantity is simply going to kill the market for those plants and put large growers out of business. I just attended a conference in Miami where this exact subject was discussed. Growers decided they would prefer to throw the seeds away rather than destroy their own businesses and sell them to mass producers. The next problem is the fact that few Anthurium will produce seed voluntarily. If you do not know how to collect the pollen, store it in a freezer, then pollinate the plant the next time it produces a spathe and spadix you are likely to never see seed. I have rare specimens that produce one spathe and spadix each year. If I have pollen in the freezer (and you must learn how to collect it properly) then those plants never produce seeds. If I do have pollen then I can get them to produce berries and each berry normally contains two seeds. I might get 200 berries on a spadix. That's 400 seeds. And people ask me for 10,000 seeds! Where do they think I'm going to grow enough plants to produce 10,000 seeds? Then, the viability of the seeds is short. I have had people mail me seed from South America and they will not germinate even after that short of trip in the mail. I really don't believe many people who ask for large volumes of seed have done the slightest research into how Anthurium reproduce. Even large growers in Central America can't supply the volume of seed people are seeking! It simply cannot be done. And if they sold them to you and shipped them to Asia, you'd likely demand your money back when they produced no plants! Again, the germination period is very short! Here is a link that will explain all of this in detail. You are fee to continue to send all of the known Anthurium growers on the internet emails begging for countless thousands of seed. But it is highly unlikely you will even receive a response. Growing them is difficult in the first place. And anyone who has spent a few million dollars building a business is not going to do something that will destroy what they have built. Exotic Rainforest rare tropical plants Sorry, I've now been forced to modify this post. I can no longer give out any information on where to acquire Anthurium seeds. And this is why. It appears the import of Anthurium seeds into some parts of the world may do damage to the local environment. I cannot be a part of that. LariAnn Garner of Aroidia research explains it best, "The funny part is that since Anthurium plantlets look very similar one to another when small, and since there is no reference set of pictures of little seedlings one can consult to verify the specific status of a particular seedling, that means that even if the seeds are viable, the buyer won't know for certain that they've been scammed until a year or two has elapsed. By then the seller will be long gone with their money. I think we shouldn't be selling any Anthurium seed or plants to people in Indonesia anyway, for several very important reasons. One reason is that Indonesia is a tropical area where these plants could become naturalized, and these plants are not native there; if they escape, one or more of them could have a deleterious effect on the native flora, either through introduction of associated pests or through competitive pressures, or both.. Another is that if we cannot get plants freely from them due to CITES and other regulations, then they should be under the same strict limitations as we are, and not be able to get our plants either." Sorry, if you ask me for seeds, I'll just have to politely tell you I can't help. __________________