Dysosma and Podophyllum

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Two years ago I picked up a Dysosma pleianthum X veitchii...it is doing very well and for the first time has buds this year. Hopefully it will be open in the next 2 weeks. Perfect camouflage foliage!

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Tony Willis (not verified)

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 12:57pm

Todd

these are wonderful plants but very mixed up and I think that looks to have some delavayi in it. It should be easy to see when it flowers and the characteristics of those can be seen. There have been many discussions on the SRGC forum as to the identity of individual plants most of which have come via Chen yi. I have raised dozens of plants from different species and all of this group are spectacular. The only problem is they are not self fertile so two clones are needed.

The pleianthum with me grows about three feet tall with leaves two feet across.

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Richard T. Rodich

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 7:09pm

Cool, Todd.  And even more cool about the pleianthum, Tony. 8)

May I say also, that although these are self infertile, that doesn't mean they won't produce fruit.
This one had zero seeds.

   

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Tony Willis (not verified)

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 5:42am

here are three pictures of my delavayi seedlings and then a sample of the fruits. Yes they will produce fruits as a single clone but in the pleianthum and mairei these soon drop off. Fertilsed fruits produce an interesting  inside which is very difficult to clean off the seeds.

Also a picture of Dysosma difformis which produces square leaves

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Todd Boland

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 7:27am

WOW!  If the leaf colour means anything, I can see that mine certainly has delavayi genes.

My Podophyllum hexandrum are just breaking the surface, yet Dysosma is so far advanced.  Go figure.

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Amy Olmsted

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 2:29pm
Tony wrote:

here are three pictures of my delavayi seedlings and then a sample of the fruits. Yes they will produce fruits as a single clone but in the pleianthum and mairei these soon drop off. Fertilsed fruits produce an interesting  inside which is very difficult to clean off the seeds.

Also a picture of Dysosma difformis which produces square leaves

Hey Tony....I have some seedlings of these coming up.....the seed leaves are all green, will the more mature leaves start showing more color when the arrive?

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Tony Willis (not verified)

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 3:27pm

Amy

mine are now three years old and so I am relying on memory which tells me the seed leaves are green followed very soon by the first true leaf which should be coloured.

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Mark McDonough

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 8:18pm

These are weird and fabulous plants! A few months back, at one of our local NARGS New England Chapter "plant study workshops", it was on this topic, given by Darrell Probst; yes he knows all about these things and has dabbled with hybridization with them; they are a truly remarkable group of plants.  I can envision myself getting totally hooked on these; that's just what I need (NOT).  ;)