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Kaffir starts with ... Does anyone in Western Australia have any rhizomes or seeds of Etlingera elatior, edible pink torch ginger? I would like to try growing it in Port Hedland, Western Australia. All the online nurseries that I've found that stock torch ginger varieties seem to be in Queensland and either don't ship at all to WA or add the $300 quarantine seed inspection fee. Oh the strict WA quarantine laws! www.towenmounttropicals.com.au/ www.elarishtropicalexotics.com/ www.bambooland.com.au/ Although the varieties of torch ginger are very pretty and decorative, I would like to try to grow it for culinary reasons. Grateful if anyone can help me out.
| About the Author Kaffir South Hedland WA 6722 8th January 2014 6:06am #UserID: 9285 Posts: 5 View All Kaffir's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author trikus TULLY,4854,QLD 8th January 2014 9:10am #UserID: 5279 Posts: 121 View All trikus's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Kaffir says... Hi trikus, According to this site, http://www.biosecurity.wa.gov.au/organisms, it's permitted. Regarding the photo, I just copied it from one of the online nurseries above. Yes, your photo is of the variety I'm familiar with as 'Bunga Kantan/Bunga Siantan'. Bunga siantan though also refers to some other non-edible flower I think. Are you growing those in the photos you posted? How difficult or expensive would it be to send some rhizomes to me in Port Hedland? The only fairly exotic thing I can think of that I have at the moment in return would be some Broome chilli seeds. Cheers, | About the Author Kaffir South Hedland WA 6722 11th January 2014 4:28pm #UserID: 9285 Posts: 5 View All Kaffir's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Kaffir South Hedland WA 6722 24th April 2014 12:32am #UserID: 9285 Posts: 5 View All Kaffir's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author trikuslaptop1 wet tropics 24th April 2014 4:07am #UserID: 3851 Posts: 80 View All trikuslaptop1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Kimberley Gardener says... I recently purchased some from http://www.ebay.com.au/usr/kenni_koala_seeds?_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2754 Kenni_Koala_Seeds on Ebay. They haven't arrived yet but it's a start. Very hard for West Australians, especially when you are purchasing plants which are not suited to Perth/SW. | About the Author Dorte KUNUNURRA,6743,WA 25th April 2014 8:47am #UserID: 9378 Posts: 5 View All Dorte's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Kaffir South Hedland WA 6722 28th April 2014 11:52pm #UserID: 9285 Posts: 5 View All Kaffir's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Happiness says... I know paradise distributors carry Nicolaia elatior (etlingera elatior) in red and pink. They also carry some other ginger varieties. They are in queensland but they batch their orders together so the bill is split and it only costs $30 to get them. I ordered a lot of different plants from then, including an acerola cherry a miracle plant and globba winitii thai beauty (ornamental ginger) the plants arrived when they said and were all healthy and protected with moistened newspaper. All plants are going really well a year on, have had lots of flowers from the thai beauty and have even had babies which have made great gifts (only problem is our dog loves eating the flowers, so we have to cut them for the vase promptly) website: http://www.paraplants.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&category_id=4&product_id=1404&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
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About the Author Happiness 6101 15th April 2015 12:56am #UserID: 11628 Posts: 2 View All Happiness's Edible Fruit Trees |
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