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Craspedia incana

Family AsteraceaeGenus Craspedia

A single yellow button flower head on a short stalk above a rosette of thick white woolly leaves, on stony ground
FlowerJohn BarklaCC BY 4.0

About the plant

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

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
YellowRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
New Zealand SouthGBIF 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.

This source reports two treatments. Both are shown.

Protocol 1

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around January 18, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 77 days to germinate.

100% germination in 77 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Craspedia p. 126Public domain
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Craspedia (Asteraceae). C. incana germ. 70D(100% in the 11th w) in one sample and 70D(213 in 2nd and 4th w) and 70 GA-3(2/4 in 3rd w) in another.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Craspedia p. 126. 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, 1993

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around March 15, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Gibberellic acid soak

  2. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 21 days to germinate.

50% germination in 21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Craspedia p. 126Public domain
Show the original text
Craspedia (Asteraceae). C. incana germ. 70D(100% in the 11th w) in one sample and 70D(213 in 2nd and 4th w) and 70 GA-3(2/4 in 3rd w) in another.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Craspedia p. 126. 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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