 The greatest impediment to producing a crop of seeds is the long maturation time for the seed pods – which is right up to the first hard freeze of the year.Waterlogging is indeed an issue – leading to root rot – and a well-drained sandy loam is preferred, but not essential.Curiously, this and the other three members of the genus "Tylosema" are possibly unique within the family Fabaceae in the fact they exhibit heterostyly.