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Phormium colensoi

Mountain Flax

Family AsphodelaceaeGenus Phormium

Curved green seed pods hanging in rows from an arching brown stalk, above the strap leaves of a flax clump.
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About the plant

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

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
Greenish, yellow, orangeWikipedia

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.

Worth knowing

  • Mountain flax, or wharariki in Māori, is endemic to New Zealand and less common than harakeke, P. tenax. Its flowers are followed by twisted seed pods. Wikipedia: Phormium colensoi

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 28 days to germinate.

60% germination in 14–28 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Phormium p. 54Public domain
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Phormium (Liliaceae). Definitive conclusions cannot be drawn because of the small numbers of seeds. P. cookianum germ. 70L(1/1 in 9th w) and 70D(none) Seeds DS 1 y germ. ; 70D(3/5 in 2-4 w). ' . •
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Phormium p. 54. 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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