Butterfly Milkweed Seed Pods. They send out asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed red and yellow flowers. Simply empty seeds and fluff into a paper bag with a few coins and shake the coins help to separate the seeds.
The fruit of the butterfly weed plant is a narrow greyish green pod covered with hairs which ripens at the end of summer or the beginning of fall. Live monarch will send 15 butterfly garden seeds including milkweed and growing instructions even if you can not afford a contribution just mail us a self addressed stamped envelope one per household. Milkweed seeds need to be stratified to help them germinate.
Here are a couple of tricks to ensure that your seeds are mature and viable.
They send out asclepias curassavica tropical milkweed red and yellow flowers. The pods on both my milkweed and butterfly weed plants are beginning to open so i ve gently tied them shut in order so the seeds won t fly away. Also known as asclepias tuberosa orange milkweed pleurisy root and yellow milkweed the plant can grow to be anywhere from one to two feet tall and is characterized by glossy green leaves and clusters of bright orange to yellow blooms that are rich with nectar and. The fruit of the butterfly weed plant is a narrow greyish green pod covered with hairs which ripens at the end of summer or the beginning of fall.
