Tropical Milkweed Seed Pods. Here are a couple of tricks to ensure that your seeds are mature and viable. The seeds we supply are ready to plant no special preparation necessary.
If you add some leaf mulch to the plants before winter most of them should return next spring since tropical milkweed is hardy to zone 8. However if you want to avoid the fluff and be able to take the seeds off neatly and easily. If you don t want tropical milkweed plants to seed cutting off immature seed pods is a good idea.
Plants from seeds sown outdoors may not bloom until late summer or early fall.
It is native to the american tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species other common names include bloodflower or blood flower cotton bush hierba de la cucaracha mexican butterfly weed redhead scarlet milkweed and wild ipecacuanha. Via its flower its foliage and its seed pods. You can identify milkweed in three ways. Milkweed grows naturally in meadows fields and ditches throughout the state.