I'm doing this because I love Asclepiadoideae, and I want to give a good representation of the amazing subfamily! Trading welcomed, requests welcomed. Any species in the subfamily from A. syriaca to Dischidia. They are all jewels!

Asclepias curassavica, Gomphocarpus frutocosa and physocarpus.

Calotropis procera.

Lower left, Tithonia. Lower right, Dregea sinensis.

I've ended up with 3 Calotropis proceras, but considering how big they get 3 is enough.

Oxypetalums, they have flower buds already, turquiose flowers ya'll! I read that micorrhizal fungi were really good for milkweeds. Boy were they right! Do it!

https://www.mpgranch.com/dispatches/milkweed-fungal-perspective

These are the 3 species that have germinated so far....

Asclepias verticillata.

Asclepias pumila.

Asclepias arenaria.

I'm growing almost all of Illinois native milkweeds except for 4 very rare species. I realize it doesn't make sense to grow the arid loving western milkweeds, but there are a few that I'm trying out that technically aren't native to my area. A few of those would be A. cordifolia, A. humistrata, and A. latifolia. They are gorgeous, I couldn't help myself lol. I might be doing lights every winter from now on so it looks like Stapeliads might be on the horizon. Just so everyone remembers. Asclepiadoideae flowers are the most structurally complex out of all the dicots, comparable, but different to the orchids which rule the monocots. There's plenty of time to talk about all the other species I'm growing.

I just discovered this subspecies of Asclepias incarnata in the last month. Very nice looking. It's on next years must have list lol.

Asclepias incarnata pulchra.

Asclepias incarnata pulchra.

I heard that in some rare cases syriaca and sullivantii will hybridize. Thank you Jeff for coming through with the variegata and perennis seeds! I might end up with more variegatas than I know what to do with too! Every single Asclepias species is a jewel, so noone ever lacks nearby exquisite beauty!

I'm growing a large amount of new Asclepias species along with hundreds of new native plant species. Placement of all these plants is going to take a good amount of thought.

I want to grow this one so bad, and it's so sad how rare and threatened it is.....Asclepias meadii!

Pink vein beauty Asclepias viridis, green milkweed. I think I'm growing it? Hard keeping track lol!

Dregea volubis. Wow!

Straight from the twilight zone, a liana Fockea.

I love this Dischidia.

The everseeing eyes! Brachystelma barberae!

I was just thinking how much of a good oprion trading and gifting plants can be right now. I have more seedlings than I can use, Oxypetalum, Dregea, curassavica, Gomphocapus. I'd be looking for anything unusal that I don't have but want.

http://www.cactus-mall.com/stapeliad/pollin.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318570516_A_revised_phylogenetically-based_concept_of_Ceropegia_Apocynaceae.

Hi Jay - I'm curious how your pumila turned out? Does this species grow well at your location, and how much will it spread over time? One source says that "it can be aggressive in highly fertile soils with good soil texture".