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Chiastophyllum oppositifolium

Lamb's-tail · Gold Drop

Family CrassulaceaeGenus Chiastophyllum

Also published as Umbilicus oppositifolius. You are in the right place.

An arching red stem hung with long sprays of small pale yellow buds and bell flowers, above a rosette of round cream-edged leaves.
FlowerWouter HagensPublic domain

About the plant

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

Habit
succulent subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
YellowWikipedia

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.

Worth knowing

  • Lamb's-tail, from shady mountains in the Caucasus, is still widely listed as Chiastophyllum oppositifolium. It has fleshy leaves and sprays of tiny sulfur-yellow flowers, and holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Wikipedia: Umbilicus oppositifolius

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Gibberellic acid soak

  2. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 84 days to germinate.

60% germination in 21–84 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Chiastophyllum p. 117Public domain
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Chiastophyllum (Crassulaceae). C. oppositifolia germ. only in 70D GA-3 (60% in 3-12 w). None germ. in 70D or 70L. A prior 3m at 40 had no effect.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Chiastophyllum p. 117. 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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