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Ramonda heldreichii

Olympus Violet

Family GesneriaceaeGenus Ramonda

Also published as Jankaea heldreichii. You are in the right place.

Pale violet flowers with broad overlapping lobes and small yellow eyes, on red stalks above rosettes of gray felted leaves on lichen-covered rock.
FlowerArne StridCC BY-SA 4.0

About the plant

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

Habit
lithophytePlants of the World Online
Flower
VioletWikipedia
Native range
GreeceGBIF 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

  • This gesneriad grows only on Mount Olympus in Greece, where it is a relict from the Tertiary period. It was formerly the only member of its own genus, as Jankaea heldreichii. Wikipedia: Ramonda heldreichii

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C

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

Germinates in 28 days.

Deno writes "abundantly" rather than a figure.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, JankaePublic domain
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Jankae (Gesneriaceae). J. heldrichii germ. abundantly in the 4th w at 70.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Jankae. 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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