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Lachenalia aloides

Cape Cowslip · Threetone Viooltjie

Family AsparagaceaeGenus Lachenalia

Hanging red and yellow tubular flowers on a short stalk, from a tuft of narrow leaves growing out of a rock hollow
FlowerJacques van der MerweCC BY-SA 4.0
A hand-colored plate of yellow-green tubular flowers nodding from a spotted stem, above dark-blotched leaves and a bulb
IllustrationCurtisPublic domain

About the plant

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

Habit
bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
YellowWikipedia
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; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Aloides means "aloe-like", but despite the resemblance the opal flower is not in the same family as the aloes. It carries hanging yellow tubular flowers, red at the tips, in winter and spring. Wikipedia: Lachenalia aloides

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 28 days to germinate.

100% germination in 7–28 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Lachenalia p. 42Public domain
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Lachenalia (Liliaceae). Data is much more complete than given in the Suppl., and now 22 species have been studied. In 17 of these light blocked , ' germination dramatically, and when the sample was shifted from 70L to 70D, germination commenced as if the period in 70L had not occurred. • L. aloides germ. 70D(100% in 1-4 w) and 70L(none). When the sample in 70L was shifted to 70D after 4 w, 100% germ. in 1-5 w (cónfirmed with a second sample).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Lachenalia p. 42. 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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