News on Celex and its products

Years Celex ( 2003 – 2018 ).

See the pictures from 25 years ago at the bottom of our homepage !

Exciting and successful intro ! !

(“sticky post” with a link to “Dracula” news item , more recent news about other  introductions below this).

*Original posting December 2015 – Last update of this sticky post October 2018

A breakthrough in Celosia breeding… >> >Link to the full story in Dracula news item

Or click the linked picture ( below )

Celosia Dracula

Acquisition of Celex

After more than 25 years of breeding the whole Celosia assortment and all breeding activities of Celex will be purchased  by our partner PanAmericanSeed. With that acquisition the future full of perspective for the Celosia [...]

Cut flowers – Novelties 2019 – 2020

And again we present an addition and an improvement to the “Sunday” plumosa cut flower series. The addition is “Sunday green”, a rich flowering green novelty that fits exactly to the series in prototype and [...]

Celosia at Bloomon

Celosia plumosa "Sunday" is getting more and more known to florists and is now part of the mixed bunches of flower service "Bloomon". An information leaflet is added with some explanation about Celosia ( in [...]

Ice cream yellow improved (new)

The new "Ice cream yellow improved" has already been shown in Venhuizen - Holland to the Ball / PanAm sales team at the Flower trials event in June 2018. This was previous to the official [...]

Introductions at the 2018 Flowertrials

At the Flowertrials - that were held in Holland in June 2018 - new varieties have officially been introduced by PanAm Seed. On the left four novelties in the cut flower "Sunday" series and on [...]

Concertina coming soon

The new "Concertina" series has already been shown in Venhuizen - Holland to the Ball / PanAm sales team at the Flower trials event in June 2018. This was previous to the official introduction next [...]

Beware ! – “Dracula” is coming !!!!

Our policy is to become a “total assortment player” worldwide in the crop Celosia. Up until now we’ve created many cut flower varieties in Celosia cristata, – spicata and – plumosa series. And many varieties [...]

Novelties 2018 – introductions app

Pan American Seed / Ball Hort. Co. has made an app for the smartphone with all 2018 introductions. It’s called “Cast 18” and you can find that in the app store / play store. After [...]

Cutflowers – Novelties 2018 – 2019

We proudly present an addition and an improvement to the “Sunday” plumosa cutflower series. The addition is “Sunday scarlet”, a rich flowering novelty in bright red that fits exactly to the series in prototype and [...]

“Ice cream new yellow” – Novelty 2018-2019

In a breeding project in France we’ve discovered a beautifiul deep yellow pot / bedding plumosa. That project was meant to test experimentals on heat and full sun resistance. We’ve taken some time in breeding [...]

Flowertrials 2017 The Netherlands

The new series Celosia “Neo” were presented at the show of Pan American Seed ( PAS ), location Rijsenhout – Holland. PAS made it a trendy presentation, with paintings where of each variety the colour [...]

First Flame purple

After a very busy breeding season finally some time to show novelties and this is the first one. We present a new purple colour in the “First Flame” series, called “First Flame purple”. A welcome [...]