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Androsace muscoidea

Mossy Rock Jasmine · Mossy Rock-jasmine

Family PrimulaceaeGenus Androsace

White flowers with yellow eyes and one unopened pink bud, on a tight cushion of densely white-hairy rosettes set in red volcanic grit
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About the plant

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

Habit
perennial or subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteFlora of Pakistan
Native range
Tibet, West HimalayaGBIF 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 Pakistan — S. I. Ali and M. Qaiser (eds.); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 7 days to germinate.

20% germination in 7 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Androsace p. 93Public domain
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Androsace (Primulaceae). The book "Androsace? by G.F. Smith and D. Lowe is devoted entirely to the genus. The only specific information on seed germination is that a low T cycle is not necessary which is not entirely in accord with the present work. The genus is divided into four sections: Pseudoprimula (P) which resemble Primula, Chamaejasme (C) which are mats of rosettes spreading by runners, Aretia (Ar) which are high alpine cushions, and Andraspis (An) which are winter annuals of lower elevation. The section is indicated for each species. Most of the data was obtained before the standardization of experiments. A. muscoides (C) germ. 70(1/5 on the 7th d) and 40-70(none).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Androsace p. 93. 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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