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Flueggea suffruticosa

Suffrutescent Securinega · Arching Bushweed

Family PhyllanthaceaeGenus Flueggea

Arching branches thickly set with small oval leaves and clusters of tiny green fruit
The whole plantDalgialCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
shrubPlants of the World Online
Native range
Amur, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Hainan 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

  • One of the 50 fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called yī yè qiū and its twigs and leaves are used for lumbago, numb limbs and indigestion, though there is no scientific evidence that it works. Wikipedia: Flueggea suffruticosa

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  2. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C

about 3 months from start to step 2. Germination happens during step 2, in 11 days.

61% germination in 5–11 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Securinega p. 213Public domain
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Securinega (Euphorbiaceae). S. suffruticosa germ. 30-40% on the 10th d in either 70L or 70D and 40-70(61% in 5-11 d). Ungerminated seed rotted within 2 w.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Securinega p. 213. 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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