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Lachenalia orthopetala

Straight Viooltjie

Family AsparagaceaeGenus Lachenalia

A dense spike of small white flowers with long stamens tipped dark red, against a blurred background
FlowerKaren EichholzCC BY 4.0
A watercolor of a bulb drawn whole: a dense spike of pale bell flowers above curving strap leaves, with the purple bulb and its roots below and dissections at the side.
IllustrationRijksmuseumCC0

About the plant

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

Habit
bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteRead 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 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 35 days to germinate.

100% germination in 14–35 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. orthopetala germ. 70D(100% in 2-5 w) and 70L(none). When the sample in 70L was shifted to 70D after 8 w, 1/9 germ in 2nd w.
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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