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Ephedra monosperma

Dwarf Joint Fir

Family EphedraceaeGenus Ephedra

Bright red fleshy cones clustered at the base of a low tuft of jointed green stems
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About the plant

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

Habit
subshrubPlants of the World Online
Native range
Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk 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; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Ephedra herbs, this one among them, have been used in Chinese and Japanese medicine for several thousand years. In Chinese it is called dan zi ma huang. Wikipedia: Ephedra monosperma

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Clean the flesh off the seed

  2. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

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

100% germination in 21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Ephedra p. 32Public domain
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Ephedra (Ephedraceae). E. minima germ. 70D(100% in 3rd w) similar to the three other Ephedra studied earlier (2nd Ed.). The seeds were removed from the red berries and WC one day and starled immediately. The berries may simply be protecting the seeds from moisture and/or oxygen.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Ephedra p. 32. 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.

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