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Ornithogalum candicans

Berg Chink · Cape Hyacinth · Common Berg Lily

Family AsparagaceaeGenus Ornithogalum

A tall green stalk hung with drooping white bell flowers and pale green buds, against a blue sky.
FlowerC T JohanssonCC BY 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
WhiteWikipedia
Native range
Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern 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

  • Summer hyacinth, from the moist grasslands of South Africa, is still widely known as Galtonia candicans. Baker first named it Hyacinthus candicans in 1870. Wikipedia: Ornithogalum candicans

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 21 days to germinate.

100% germination in 14–21 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Galtonia p. 35Public domain
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Galtonia (Liliaceae). G. candicans (JS) germ. 70D(100% in 2-3 w). This confirms the earlier result (2nd Ed.) and is on a much larger sample. The earlier sample germ. 1/6 suggesting that the seed was old and that seeds die rapidly in DS. This was confirmed by a sample DS 6 y which was dead.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Galtonia p. 35. 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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