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Cotyledon orbiculata

Pig Ears · Pig's Ear · Cotyledon

Family CrassulaceaeGenus Cotyledon

Coral-pink tubular flowers with curling lobes, hanging from two tall pink stalks above a rosette of thick gray-green leaves in a pot.
FlowerJJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com)CC BY-SA 2.5

About the plant

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

Habit
succulent subshrubPlants of the World Online
Habit
Perennial, Shrub, SubshrubPLANTS Database
Flower
OrangeRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Angola, Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho 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; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 14 days to germinate.

43% germination in 14 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1996 · 1st Supplement, Cotyledon p. 34Public domain
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Cotyledon (Crassufaceae). C. orbiculata germ. 70(3/7 in 2nd w). GA-3, GA-4, and GA-7 had no significant effect (KR).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement, 1st Supplement, Cotyledon p. 34. 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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