Teucrium aroanium

[Rodger Whitlock]

Teucrium aroanum  .....Or is it Teucrium aroanium?

I'd hoped to harvest seed from this, but the flower heads I processed yielded 19 seeds, perhaps enough for two or three packets. I'm going to sow them myself and see what happens. If they grow, the seedlings will have some small degree of genetic diversity and perhaps seed set will be better.

Harvesting those 19 seeds was a matter of putting the crushed flower heads through a coarse sieve, then examining the effluent with a hand lens and picking out the individual seeds on the end of a toothpick.

It's a very tough plant, btw.

[Maggi Young]

The latter appears to be the accepted name, Rodger.

Seed harvest does seem rather skimpy..... frustrating that, isn't it?  Particularly when there has been a fat seed pod, as is often the case with bulbs, ripening before your eyes, only to yield........ zilch!