WANTED: Chocolate Cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus)

18 years ago

Lovely little flowers that smell like hot-chocolate. Can SASE for them, or offer you some Blue Shrimp Plant seeds or Hare's Ear. Or some heirloom tomato seeds. or...Oh heck, just tell me what you're looking for, I'll hunt on my messy desk! :0)

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magus
18 years ago
Chocolate cosmos, alas, is a sterile species, and does not produce seed. It is extinct in the wild, and all of the available plants are clones of one surviving cultivated plant. There is a possible second individual out there, so in theory it could produce seeds, but I don't think anyone has tried to genetically find the other one.
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WANTED: Chocolate Cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus)

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