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Fritillaria pontica

Pontic Fritillary

Family LiliaceaeGenus Fritillaria

A green-yellow bell edged red-brown facing outward, with a nodding bud on the stem beside it
FlowerДимитър Найденов / Dimìtar NàydenovCC BY-SA 4.0

About the plant

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

Habit
bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
Yellow-greenRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Greece, NW. Balkan Pen., TürkiyeGBIF 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.

Worth knowing

  • The Pontic fritillary, from the mountains of the Balkans, the Aegean Islands and Anatolia, tolerates shade and is easy to grow. It holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Wikipedia: Fritillaria pontica

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

    10 germinated in this phase.

Steps after step 1 run on after germination.

Germination happens during step 1, in 84 days.

60% germination in 70–84 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Fritillaria p. 144Public domain
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Fritillaria (Liliaceae). This genus germ. primarily at 40. Sometimes this had to be preceded by a cycle at 70 making the species a 70-40 germinator. The seedlings did not always develop, and it is probable that this was the result of shifting them to 70 too suddenly. More study is needed on this problem. Some species showed intolerance to DS, particularly F. pontica germ. best in 40(60% in 10-12 w)-70(10% on 3rd d). A prior 3m at -- 70 had no effect. - -
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Fritillaria p. 144. 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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