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Bulbine bulbosa

Bulbine Lily · Golden-lily · Small Onionweed

Family AsphodelaceaeGenus Bulbine

A spike of yellow six-petalled flowers with fluffy orange-yellow stamens, opening above green buds
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About the plant

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

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
YellowWikipedia
Native range
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, VictoriaGBIF 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; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Aboriginal people ate the nutritious corms of bulbine lily, which contain calcium and iron, and called the plant parm, puewan and pike. They thought it the sweetest-tasting of the Australian lilies and lily-like plants. Wikipedia: Bulbine bulbosa

This source reports two treatments. Both are shown.

Protocol 1

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around March 28, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 8 days to germinate.

100% germination in 6–8 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Bulbine p. 20Public domain
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Bulbine (Liliaceae). The four species stüdied germ. at 70 in either light or dark. Germination was a bit slower in 70D, particularly with B. bulbosa germ. 70D(100% in 6-8 d) and 70L(100% on 4th d).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Bulbine p. 20. 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.

Protocol 2

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around April 1, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 4 days to germinate.

100% germination in 4 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Bulbine p. 20Public domain
Show the original text
Bulbine (Liliaceae). The four species stüdied germ. at 70 in either light or dark. Germination was a bit slower in 70D, particularly with B. bulbosa germ. 70D(100% in 6-8 d) and 70L(100% on 4th d).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Bulbine p. 20. 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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