Arabian Round Leaf Grape Cissus Rotundifolia Seeds Packet of 10+ freshly harvested home grown seeds! This super hardy bright red grape is known by a heap of names including Arabian round leaf vine, Arabian wax cissus, Arabian wax leaf, Arabian wax leaf vine, bushveld grape, Cissus rotundifolia var ferrugineopubescens, Cissus rotundifolius, Cissus ferrugineopubescens, grape cissus,…
Pepper Leaf Cassia Senna Sophera var Sophera Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown native seeds! A small attractive native shrub that makes a great alternative to the imported weed Easter Cassia~Senna pendula var. glabrata. Unlike that invasive bugger, this fella won’t spread rapidly throughout your garden or the surrounding bush, and its seed set is…
Eschscholzia Californica California Poppy Seeds Packet of 100+ home grown organic seeds! This pretty little fella is very well known all around the world for a number of different reasons. The seeds, leaves and flowers are used as a food crop, mostly as a garnish, and the Native American Indians used them for food, makeup…
Hibiscus Cannabinus Red Kenaf Brown Indian Hemp Seeds Packet of 30+ home grown organic seeds! Been growing it for years, but things get a bit hectic at times and I have just never got around to adding it to the website. It is a great plant from purely an ornamental point of view, with masses…
Tiger Nut Earth Almonds Chufa Cyperus Esculentus Tubers Packet of 10+ small semi-dried and dormant, tuberous roots. I love this fella and based on very extensive experience I reckon this variety I am now growing is the very best of the lot. At one time I had ten very different forms from growers all over…
Canavalia Ensiformis Sword Bean White Seeds Packet of 5+ fresh viable home grown seeds! Known as sword beans, wonder beans, jack beans, Brazilian broad bean, coffee bean(because they can be soaked then roasted as a surprisingly tasty coffee substitute), Chickasaw lima bean, haba de burro, boyengo, Ensiform bean, horse bean, mole bean, overlook bean, and…
Turkey Berry Pea Eggplant Solanum Torvum Seeds Packet of 100+ home grown organic seeds! Excellent little eggplant in its own right, with small bunches of fruit selling for $3-10 each (300-500gms) in the Asian supermarkets I saw in Melbourne and Brisbane. Great in just about all Asian dishes, soups, curries, stew you name it, it…
Glycine Tabacina Australian Pea Seeds Packet of 25+ seeds of this native Glycine pea species. Glycine is the same family as the standard soya bean and that fella is used to produce vast amounts of stockfeed, products like soy milk, tofu, TVP, etc, and that is one of the reasons the CSRIO has invested so…
Sansevieria Trifasciata Mother In Laws Tongue Snake Plant Cuttings Great big packet of 5x fresh unrooted leaf cuttings! It will be posted out as is in a large bubble mailer world wide except for the Australian states of WA and TAS where I am unable to send any cuttings. Each cutting will be as big…
Parsnip Hollow Crown Pastinaca Sativa Seeds Packet of 100+ freshly harvested organic seeds! This fella was originally hollow crown, but I have been selecting and improving it for a years now and I reckon it is a lot hardier than when I originally grew it just under a decade ago. It is a great tasting…
Shalparni Desmodium Gangeticum Da Ye Shan Ma Huang Seeds Packet of 40+ home grown seeds! This little native vine is pretty common here in the scrub at home. It produces lovely little purple and pink flowers on long sprays, followed by velcro-like pods. I reckon it’s pretty, but I personally don’t do anything with it…
Zombie Pea Vigna Vexillata Wild Cowpea Seeds Packet of 20+ home grown organic seeds! This local native fella is awesome and I am growing heaps of it! So many good points that I don’t even know where to start? It has a really high protein tuberous tap root that is edible raw, and even better…
Obscure Morning Glory Ipomoea Obscura Seeds Packet of 10+ fresh viable home grown seeds! Big fan of morning glories and this white and yellow one is particularly nice. There are a few forms of this species and the one I am selling seeds of has a small white flower with pale creamy yellow star radiating…
Wild Jack Bean Canavalia Papuana Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown rarely available seeds! I have been collecting and eating the seeds and pods of this plant for more than two decades now and I was originally told they were the same as the other Jack Bean, just with longer thinner pods. Turns out that…
Musk Okra Native Hibiscus Abelmoschus Moschatus Seeds Packet of 15+ seeds from this awesome little native plant! Perfect as a ground cover, it stays sprawling at ankle high in hard conditions and dry, poor soils. Gets up to about knee high in rick moist loamy soils. Famed in India as a medicinal and used as…
Ipomoea Coccinea Mexican Scarlet Morning Glory Seeds Packet of 30+ freshly harvested, home grown seeds! Like most Ipomoea species it seems there are many different names for this fella, and those names are also used for many similar, but quite unique species. These names include Scarlet Morning Glory, Red Morning Glory, Scarlet Starglory, Starglory, Redstar, Mexican Morning…
Chicory Herb Coffee Substitute Cichorium Intybus Seed Big packet of 150+ seeds! This awesome plant has been in cultivation for more than 5000+years, by Egyptians as a medicinal herb. Ancient Greeks and Romans also used chicory along with just about every other culture that lived along side it, both as a vegetable, and in salads…
Acacia Holosericea Velvet Leaf Wattle Seeds Packet of 15+ Seeds! Another local wattle with tasty seeds and a myriad of common names. Fish Poison Wattle, Soapy Wattle, Candelabra Wattle, Silky leafed wattle, Strap wattle, and Velvet Leaf. The leaves are high in sapanoids which when crushed up will kill fish, the pounded roots were used…
Panda Ying Yang Orca Frost Bean Phaseolus Vulgaris Seeds Packet of 10+ bean seeds! Another great great heirloom variety that is well worth adding to the collection. Seen them called panda beans, ying yang beans, orca(killer whale) bean, frost bean, and they are actually a Phaseolus vulgaris, just a much rarer, cool looking relative of…
Egyptian Paper Grass Cyperus Papyrus Dwarf Seeds Packet of 100+ tiny seeds! Super easy to grow plant, just sit a pot of nice sandy dirt in an inch of water, sprinkle the seeds on top and water every few days. I planted one packet and got hundreds of the little buggers popping up within a…
Butterfly Pea Mix Clitoria Ternatea Seeds Mixture of 10+seed per packet, from this awesome edible and ornamental vine! It contains seeds from single straight edged blooms, frilled edged singles, double frilled ones, double straight edged ones, in every shade from white to deep dark blue, even a couple pink shaded ones. As I grow them…
Creeping Saltbush Rhagodia Spinescens Seeds Packet of 50+ waxy red coated home grown seeds! Sometimes sold under the name Chenopodium spinescens or Rhagodia deltophylla, or the other common name Spiny Saltbush. When I bought it back in the day it was based on the fact it was a bush tucker and the sellers description of…
Wombat Berry Eustrephus Latifolius Seeds Packet of 20+fresh seeds, collected from the scrub and the raised beds here at home. This guy is great, and a native we really should be promoting and growing much more. It produces a delicious crisp tuber that is great raw or cooked, and a sweet little aril that tastes…
Job’s Tears Coix Lacryma Jobi Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds from this very unusual medicinal plant! Traditionally this versatile plant has three main uses. The first is as a bead, the second as a food, and the third as a medicine, particularly as a cancer treatment. Let’s start with the bead. It is used as…
Jicama Mexican Yam Bean Pachyrhizus Erosus Seeds Packet of 10+ home grown seeds! Let me start by saying the seed pods and seeds are toxic and not a food. They contain rotenone, a toxic substance that reliably kills insects and is often used as an organic insecticide. It just as reliably kills fish so planting…
Daikon Long Japanese Radish Raphanus Sativus Seeds Packet of 30+ seeds of the true Japanese style radish! Lots of different varieties of radish seeds around, so it took us a while to find this one. This is the really huge and tender one that has the delicious fish bone shaped leaf. This is not the…
Plantain Broad Leaf Plantago Major Seed Packet of 500+ freshly harvested seeds! This well known medicinal herb is a real must. Makes a great salad particularly the tender smaller leaves. The large mature leaves are great boiled in stews, steamed or made into tea. Every parts of the plant, including the seeds and root, is…
Lucerne Alfalfa Medicago Sativa Seeds Packet of 150+ seeds from this very nutritious nitrogen fixing legume! Easy to grow and incredibly hardy. I never ever water ours and still get a decent harvest every now and then. With water and a little love you can grow enough to bale it for later if you want.…
Desmanthus Illinoensis Bundleflower Prairie Mimosa 200+ seeds of this little beauty. Creamy white puff ball flowers, awesome lacy foliage, and a curled seed pod that looks quite trippy I reckon. I have been getting an awesome strike rate off these seeds and I have far more than I could ever use, so am happily selling…
Black Pearl Chilli Capsicum Annuum Seeds Packet of 25+ home grown seeds of this really beautiful chilli! This one can really be a hard to find variety of chilli at times, especially down south. It is available on ebay from time to time but in my extensive experience the vast majority of sellers are selling…
Kang Kong Water Spinach Ipomoea Aquatica Seeds Packet of 20+ fresh seeds from this delicious semi-aquatic plant! First of all, I have a confession to make…….. All those folks who asked me for seeds ~8years ago, and I told them not to bother as they were really hard to germinate…… I was 100% WRONG, and…
Pigeon Pea Cajanus Cajun Seeds Packet of 20+ home grown seeds! For years I was growing the two main heirloom varieties grown in extensively in India, Africa, Central America, and various other countries. Both had their good points, and I was super happy with them. Then I got some of this Indian variety in trade…
Watermelon Mini Cuban Dixie Queen Citrullus Lanatus Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds from this rare variety of watermelon, grown here in Queensland Australia! The seeds of this variety are large and white not black. Don’t worry, that is exactly how they are meant to be. This one is a real beauty, the famous Mini Cuban…
Datura Stramonium var Tatula Jimson Weed Seeds Packet of 50+ seeds of another angry plant! This one is the “Tatula” variant of Datura stramonium, or the violet/lavender form, depending who you speak too. (Datura stramonium “tatula”) Its just as toxic as the standard, the only difference being the purple in the flower and the stems, making…
Fat Hen Chenopodium Album Dirty Dick Bathua Seeds Packet of 200+ tiny teeny seeds! This is a really great plant to have and the leaves are excellent in salads, soups, stews you name it really. I love it with a creamy mushroom sauce on pasta! If you have a patch in the garden where nothing…