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Jicama Mexican Yam Bean Pachyrhizus Erosus Seeds

Leigh Nankervis — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:22:23 +0000

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 […]

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Nagaimo Chinese Yam Potato Dioscorea Opposita Batatas Tubers

admin — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Nagaimo “Chinese yam” Dioscorea Opposita or even Dioscorea batatas. Packet of 10+ tiny aerial roots or tubers from this beauty! Know by a number of names including, but not limited to Chinese yam, Korean yam, Japanese yam, Asian yam, tororo, nagaimo, huai shan, shan yao, huai shan yao, ma, sanwu, seoyeo, sanyak, cu mai, khoai […]

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Plectranthus Parviflorus Blue Cockspur Flower Seeds

Leigh Nankervis — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:20:25 +0000

Plectranthus Parviflorus Blue Cockspur Flower Seeds Packet of 50+ home grown bush tucker seeds! This pretty native succulent isn’t just beautiful. It is super hardy as well due to the numerous tuberous roots it produces. They help store carbohydrates, starch and water during the dry times ensuring pretty much year round flowers. These roots are […]

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Native Ginger Alpinia Caerulea Galangal Seeds

Leigh Nankervis — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 00:11:16 +0000

Native Ginger Alpinia Caerulea Galangal Seeds Packet of 40+ super fresh home grown seeds! I always knew this form of green leaved native ginger as Galangal though “native ginger” seems to be more commonly used by everyone else these days. Turns out it is super closely related, much closer than supermarket ginger, with the true […]

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Taro Root Colocasia Esculenta Green Cocoyam Tuber

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 03:36:48 +0000

Taro Root Colocasia Esculenta Green Cocoyam Tuber Packet containing 2x small ready to plant tuberous roots! Known by 100’s of names as it is valued by so many different cultural groups all around the world. I’ll get a few of them out of the way now, but there are definitely lots more too. Abi, Alocasia […]

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Waterchestnut Tuber Eleocharis Dulcis Corms Roots

Leigh Nankervis — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 01:30:24 +0000

Waterchestnut Tuber Eleocharis Dulcis Corms Roots Packet containing 5x very small ready to plant corms or roots! Normally just called waterchestnut, they are also sometimes called water chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Andropogon dulce, apulid, babawangan, bi qi, bolotnitsa sladkaia, bulrush, buslig, cabezas de negrito, Carex tuberosa, chataigne d’ear, chataigne d’eau, chataigne d’eau vietnamienne, Chinesische wassernub, […]

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Purple Shamrock Clover Oxalis Triangularis Regnellii Bulbs

Leigh Nankervis — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 04:19:32 +0000

Purple Shamrock Clover Oxalis Triangularis Regnellii Bulbs Packet containing 5 small clusters of bulblets! Each one of these clusters has at least 5 actual bulbs in it, which gives you a total of more than 25 potential plants. You could break them up further but that will also damage and kill a couple so I […]

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Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus Tuberosus Sunroot Earth Apple Tubers

Leigh Nankervis — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:16:43 +0000

Jerusalem Artichoke Helianthus Tuberosus Sunroot Earth Apple Tubers Packet containing 5x small ready to plant tuberous roots! I love these guys and used to eat them all the time when I lived down south. The reason they were not on my regular menu here in Gin Gin 4671 Queensland Australia is because of climate. They […]

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Murdannia Graminea Grass Lily Seeds

Leigh Nankervis — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:59:31 +0000

Murdannia Graminea Grass Lily Seeds Packet of 10+ seeds from this awesome native tuberous vegetable! I have always eaten these guys when cruising around the bush, and they are a very reliable bushtucker. That said, it took me ages to work out how to grow them at home as a productive food crop too. In […]

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Alpinia Caerulea Atherton Red Back Native Ginger Seeds

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:45:55 +0000

Alpinia Caerulea Atherton Red Back Native Ginger Seeds Packet of 40+ super fresh seeds! Very interesting native bushtucker plant. As the name suggests it is a delicious native ginger, much like galangal actually, mild, sweet and spicy, with large knobbly roots. Unlike ginger you can just chew the root as is as the flavor is […]

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