First, I'm thinking of growing a few under a greenhouse roof. Second, I grow lots of desert cacti outside here by grafting them on a local pitaya cactus that just loves lots of rain. I know that Hoodia is not a cactus and grafting is made very difficult by its milky latex but things can be tried. We have fleshy Euphorbs here that grow well under wet conditions.

Thirdly, you say it is protected because of trade restrictions. I was only speaking of slipping a dozen seeds into an envelope on the sly. Costa Rica is certainly not the place to try a couple of hectares of this! Or are these restrictions another attempt to keep down foreign commercial competition by preventing propagation material from escaping the country? That's been tried over and over again in other parts of the world and does not really work.

Does your area grow any pitaya? That's the cactus vine species with large, sweet fruit that are commercialized in many parts of the world.

I would love some bird of paradise seeds! Will you send them to the States? I have some organic flowers (echinacea, poppies, and others) and some gourd and cantaloupe seeds that kept from my own garden, which I grow naturally, with no chemicals or pesticides. I'm not certified organic because its just my own private garden, but if that's good enough for you, I'd be happy to send you some! I love growing things that are different and unusual. I have a ton of houseplants, because it gets so cold here in the winter. I have a couple small greenhouse enclosures in my basement too. I can grow any type of plant since I can modify the environment to fit the plants needs. I have tropicals and cacti in my house and they both do just fine.
Let me know.