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Ourisia polyantha

Cliftonville Scarlet

Family PlantaginaceaeGenus Ourisia

Scarlet tubular flowers with flared lower lips and pale stamens, held out from wiry stems of small dark leaves against rock.
FlowerNicolás LavanderoCC BY 4.0

About the plant

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

Habit
subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
RedWikipedia
Native range
Chile CentralGBIF 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

  • A South American foxglove from the Andes of central Chile, described by Poeppig and Endlicher in 1835. Rock gardeners have grown it successfully and crossed it with Ourisia microphylla, a hybrid named Ourisia × bitternensis. Wikipedia: Ourisia polyantha

This source reports two treatments. Both are shown.

Protocol 1

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around March 22, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 14 days to germinate.

50% germination in 14 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Ourisia p. 51Public domain
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Ourisia (Scrophulariaceae). O. polyantha germ. 70L(50% in 2nd w) and none in 70D, 70 GA-3, 40-70D, or 40-70L.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Ourisia p. 51. 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.

Protocol 2

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing.

0% germination.

Nothing germinated at 70.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Ourisia p. 51Public domain
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Ourisia (Scrophulariaceae). O. polyantha germ. 70L(50% in 2nd w) and none in 70D, 70 GA-3, 40-70D, or 40-70L.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Ourisia p. 51. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record; 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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