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Ixia paniculata

Butt Ixia · Tube Kalossie · Tubular Corn-lily

Family IridaceaeGenus Ixia

Cream star-shaped flowers with dark brown anthers, on wiry stems in rough grassland
FlowerAndrew massynCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
tuberous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
CreamRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Cape ProvincesGBIF 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.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

  2. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

about 3 months from start to step 2. Germination happens during step 2, in 42 days.

100% germination in 28–42 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Ixia p. 40Public domain
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Ixia (Iridaceae). The seeds were all DS 6 m unless otherwise indicated. I. paniculata germ. 70D-40(3/3 in 4-6 w) in one sample and in a second sample all 9 rotted.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Ixia p. 40. 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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