Spiny Holdback Caesalpinia spinosa

Detailed Listing For
Botanical Name:

Caesalpinia spinosa

Family:

Fabaceae

Genus:

Caesalpinia

Species:

spinosa

Common Name:

Spiny Holdback

Seeds Per Pound:
7,900
Quantity:
0.27 lb
Average Viable Seeds/Packet:
13
Germination:
78%
Germination Test Type:
Actual
Purity:
99%
Collection Locale:
Honduras
Crop Year:
2022
Minimum Hardiness Zone:
9
Harvest hemisphere:
Northern
In Stock: 0.27 lb
Prices
Items are priced on a curve, you can buy any 'bulk quantity' up to what we have in stock, some examples are:
1 packet (~ 13 seeds)
$4.95
10 gram (~ 174 seeds)
$12.00
1 oz (~ 494 seeds)
$14.95
4 oz (~ 1975 seeds)
$44.85
Growing Info, follow in order:
Scarification: Pour in just boiled water over seeds, soak for 30 seconds. Transfer to a container with luke warm water and soak overnight. Swollen seed can then be sown, re-treat seeds that have not swollen.
Stratification: none required.
Germination: sow seed 1/4" deep, tamp the soil, keep moist, mulch the seed bed.
Other: requires light for germination, mulch lightly. Seed needs warm temperatures after sowing to germinate (75 degrees F +).
Description C. spinosa typically grows 2-5 m tall; its bark is dark gray with scattered prickles and hairy twigs. Leaves are alternate, evergreen, lacking stipules , bipinnate , and lacking petiolar and rachis glands. Leaves consist of 3-10 pairs of primary leaflets under 8cm in length, and 5-7 pairs of subsessile elliptic secondary leaflets, each about 1.5-4cm long. Inflorescences are 15-20cm long terminal racemes , many flowered and covered in tiny hairs. Flowers are yellow to orange with 6-7mm petals ; the lowest sepal is boat-shaped with many long marginal teeth; stamens are yellow, irregular in length and barely protruding. The fruit is a flat, oblong indehiscent pod , about 6-12cm long and 2.5cm wide, containing 4-7 round black seeds, and will redden when mature. [ 4 ]
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Usda description:
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