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Argemone munita

Chicalote · Flat-bud Prickly Poppy · Fried Egg Plant · Flatbud Pricklypoppy

Family PapaveraceaeGenus Argemone

A clump of white crumpled poppies with yellow centers on prickly stems, rising from deeply cut gray-green spiny leaves on dry ground
The whole plantStan ShebsCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
annual or perennialPlants of the World Online
Habit
Annual, Perennial, Forb/herbPLANTS Database
Flower
WhiteFlora of North America
Native range
Arizona, California, Idaho, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, Oregon and elsewhereGBIF 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; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Flora of North America — Flora of North America Editorial Committee; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Munita means "armed", for the many long prickles of this prickly poppy, whose spiny stems can top a meter. It grows widely in California, on slopes up to 10,000 feet and along roadsides. Wikipedia: Argemone munita

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Gibberellic acid soak

  2. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 28 days to germinate.

98% germination in 14–28 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1996 · 1st Supplement, Argemone p. 22Public domain
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Argemone (Papaveraceae). A. munita germ. 70 GA-3(98% in 2-4 w). No other treatment gave any germination. The results were identical for fresh seeds or seeds DS up to 2 y.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement, 1st Supplement, Argemone p. 22. 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.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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