[MPWG] Moosli in Florida

[Michael Schenk]

Dr. Oudhia,

I would be very cautious about recommending foreign plants to grow in Florida.  The young and warm ecosystem there is prone to invasion by exotics.  If these plants do well there, they could escape cultivation and become potentially serious pests.  Florida already has too many problems with introduced species.

Regards,
Michael Schenk

Dear Group Members,
       
       I have received query from North Florida for the cultivation of Indian medicinal
plants (Message is pasted below). Safed Moosli (Chlorophytum borivilianum) and Satavar
(Asparagus racemosus). I am not aware of climatic and edaphic conditions of zone
8. Please inform me more about it and also try to answer his query.
 
regards
Pankaj Oudhia
======================================
 Dr. Pankaj Oudhia,  I am intersted in the moosli plant. I have a farm in North 
Florida and sell my produce at a local farmers market. Many of my customers are 
of Indian descent and constantly ask me if I would grow plants of Eastern origin.
Would plants such as satawar and moosli do well in a zone 8  where we have frequent
sub 32 F days in the winter.              Thanks, William Gibbons   WellbornFarms at aol.com