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Saxifraga caesia

Blue Saxifrage

Family SaxifragaceaeGenus Saxifraga

Wiry stalks of small white five-petalled flowers rising from tight gray-green cushions of tiny rosettes, wedged on a mossy rock ledge.
The whole plantThomas MathisCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

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

Habit
subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Austria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen. and elsewhereGBIF 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; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Very high Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 42 days to germinate.

5% germination in 42 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Saxifraga p. 211Public domain
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Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae). The stimulation of germination by GA-3 in S. caesia germ. 70D(1/19 in 6th w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Saxifraga p. 211. 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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