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Muscarimia macrocarpa

Yellow Grape Hyacinth

Family AsparagaceaeGenus Muscarimia

A clump of long, narrow leaves on gravel with short flower spikes, purple buds above and yellow bells below
The whole plantSten PorseCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
bulbous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
YellowWikipedia
Native range
East Aegean Is., Greece, Kriti, 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; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • The yellow grape hyacinth, from eastern Crete, Amorgos and south-west Turkey, has flowers that are violet in bud and yellow when open, with a distinct scent of bananas. Wikipedia: Muscari macrocarpum

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 21 days.

60% germination in 21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Muscarimia p. 49Public domain
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Muscarimia (Liliaceae). M. macrocarpum germ. 70D-40(3/5 in 3rd w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Muscarimia p. 49. 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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