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Prosartes lanuginosa

Yellow Fairybells · Yellow Mandarin

Family LiliaceaeGenus Prosartes

Also published as Disporum lanuginosum. You are in the right place.

A pair of pale green bell flowers with narrow flared petals hanging beneath broad, ribbed, pointed leaves
FlowerJason HollingerCC BY 2.0

About the plant

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

Habit
rhizomatous geophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
Greenish white, greenish yellowFlora of North America

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; Flora of North America — Flora of North America Editorial Committee.

Worth knowing

  • Yellow fairybells, now Prosartes lanuginosa, is native to the Great Smoky Mountains and much of Appalachia from New York to Alabama, with outlying populations in the Ozarks of Arkansas and in southwestern Ontario. Wikipedia: Prosartes lanuginosa

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Temperature: 40°F 4°C

Germination happens during step 1, in 42 days.

91% germination in 42 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Disporum p. 134Public domain
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Disporum (Llliaceae). Seeds are enclosed in red berries and must be WC. D. lanuginosum germ. best at 40(91% in 6th w). Seed sown at 70 with or without GA-3 completely rotted within 2 m. Germination is hypogeal, and the true leaf starts to emerge while still at 40.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Disporum p. 134. 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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