Oenothera xylocarpa
Woodyfruit Evening Primrose · Sierra Evening Primrose
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- perennialPlants of the World Online
- Habit
- Perennial, Forb/herbPLANTS Database
- Flower
- YellowFlora of North America
- Native range
- California, NevadaGBIF 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; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Flora of North America — Flora of North America Editorial Committee; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- Woodyfruit evening primrose has no stem: its showy flowers rise from a flat, dense rosette of hairy gray-green leaves. It grows in the Sierra Nevada, often in soils rich in pumice. Wikipedia: Oenothera xylocarpa
Protocol
DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993Difficulty Very high
Sow and cover
Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark
The rest of the seed soon rotted.
No stated waiting before sowing. Then 21 days to germinate.
4% germination in 21 days.
Two seeds of fifty-four, and the rest rotted. The worst result in the genus.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
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