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Gaultheria depressa

Mountain Snowberry

Family EricaceaeGenus Gaultheria

A white fleshy berry with folded lobes, nestled among small glossy dark green leaves
FruitPoyt448 Peter WoodardCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteWikipedia
Native range
New Zealand North, New Zealand South, TasmaniaGBIF 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; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Early settlers in southern Otago, New Zealand, made snowberry pies from the fruit of this small, ground-hugging alpine shrub, also called alpine wax berry. Wikipedia: Gaultheria depressa

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 56 days to germinate.

12% germination in 35–56 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Gaultheria p. 145Public domain
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Gaultheria (Ericaceae). Seed is enclosed in a berry and was WC. G. depressa germ. only in light, 70L(12% in 5-8 w) and 70D(none).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Gaultheria p. 145. 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

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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