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Adenophora potaninii

Bush Ladybells

Family CampanulaceaeGenus Adenophora

Also published as Adenophora potanini. You are in the right place.

Small pale lilac bells hanging from thin stems among tall, toothed green leaves
FlowershizhaoCC BY-SA 4.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
Purple, blue, blue-purpleFlora of China
Native range
China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, QinghaiGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Flora of China — Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven and Hong Deyuan (eds.); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Medium: soil

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 14 days to germinate.

92% germination in 14 days.

Sown in soil.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Adenophora p. 88Public domain
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Adenophora (Campanulaceae). Four species germ. in the 2nd w in soil in the percentages indicated: A. farreri (44%), A. lilitolia (44%), A. potanini (92%), and A. tashiroi (8%).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Adenophora p. 88. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

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