Author Topic: Seed Identification : photos of named seed varieties. (Read 154643 times)

Darren · « **Reply #255 on:** August 31, 2016, 08:27:47 AM »

This bizarre thing (which exactly matches the botanical description) is a seed of Walleria gracilis. A Namibian/South African member of the Tecophilaceae which is tuberous and has flowers rather reminiscent of potato flowers on prickly climbing/scrambling stems. An old thread on the forum recounts my difficulties in persuading this to break it's summer dormancy but I'm armed with new information this time!

No grid but the divisions on the ruler are 1mm. There are little tufts of black hairs all over the spherical part of the seed and on the tips of the appendages.

Gabriela · « **Reply #256 on:** September 21, 2016, 06:14:09 PM »

More Gentiana - 1 mm grid
Gentiana angustifolia (thanks to Yvain)
Gentiana triflora var. japonica fo. montana (thanks to Yuzawa Engei)
Gentiana cachemirica and Gentiana septemfida var. lagodechiana (thanks to myself)

Gabriela · « **Reply #257 on:** September 28, 2016, 02:18:37 AM »

Callianthemum alatavicum
Callianthemum sajanense
C. sajanense - achene open to show the seed
Pulsatilla: albana, ambigua, patens ssp. multifida
all on 1 mm grid

Gabriela · « **Reply #258 on:** November 05, 2016, 06:33:35 PM »

Few 'parasites' on 1 mm grid as usual
Agalinis paupercula
Conopholis americana
Geocaulon lividum
Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum

Gabriela · « **Reply #259 on:** December 31, 2016, 07:53:31 PM »

I have no seedlings so I'll greet the new year with few seeds images.
Pedicularis atropurpurea

Pedicularia nordmanniana

Rhododendron caucasicum

Minuartia circassica

Anthemis marschalliana ssp. sosnovskyana

Gabriela · « **Reply #260 on:** January 10, 2017, 08:28:52 PM »

Iridaceae - 1 mm
Gladiolus caucasicus

Iris aphylla

Iris imbricata

Iris pumila

Iris spuria ssp. demetrii

ashley · « **Reply #261 on:** January 31, 2017, 08:24:49 PM »

Bulbinella barkerae
Crinum macowanii
Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Daubenya stylosa
Haemanthus montanus
1mm grid

ashley · « **Reply #262 on:** January 31, 2017, 08:27:19 PM »

Tulbaghia cominsii
1mm grid

Maggi Young · « **Reply #263 on:** March 02, 2017, 07:35:16 PM »

Found on FB - by O. Toshiaki

Asarina procumbens

Seed Identification : photos of named seed varieties.

Gabriela · « **Reply #264 on:** March 27, 2017, 10:23:40 PM »

Couple of Iris spp. not often seen; the second image for both shows soaked seeds.
Iris tigridia

Iris potaninii

Maggi Young · « **Reply #265 on:** May 02, 2017, 02:13:36 PM »

From elsewhere in the forum - Alan McMurtrie's pic of Iris reticulata seed

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #266 on:** May 02, 2017, 11:49:44 PM »

These appear to be taken from the pod well before what I would call fully ripe which is in my experience (I only have experience of seed in I. winogradowii. No others have set seed for me), a light brownish or milky coffee colour and the seeds have a slightly rough coat which occurs as the coat shrinks very slightly as the seed dries.

These pictures are very lovely and would make a nice necklace!

Lesley Cox · « **Reply #267 on:** May 02, 2017, 11:57:49 PM »

Re Alan's seeds above, I have to assume then, that for many if not all irises and especially the rarer and more difficult species, it would be ideal to source seed that is harvested before full ripeness and probably sown immediately. If only we could! Most such seeds except from our own gardens, are well dried and maybe months old before we get them. We are fighting a long and possibly fruitless battle even as we order them.