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Bellevalia romana

Roman Squill

Family AsparagaceaeGenus Bellevalia

A short spike of white six-petalled flowers with blue-black anthers on a purple stem, dry brown seed capsules below
FlowerROUFFET JFCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Corse, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen. 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; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Temperature: 40°F 4°C

Germination happens during step 1, in 28 days.

90% germination in 28 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Bellevalia p. 106Public domain
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Bellevalia (Liliaceae). All three species ( B. romana) were D-40 and germ. 40(90-100% in 4th w) with or without a prior 3 m at 70.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Bellevalia p. 106. 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

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