Podophyllum flowering

[Olga Bondareva]

Wow, John, P. delavayi is outstanding! I tried it twice not successful.

My other Podophyllums/Dysosmas are flowering to.

[Robin Callens]

Hi John and Toni,

Is it possible to look at the inside of your Podophyllum versipelle flower and tell me if the ovary is large and as long as the 6 stamens around it or if the ovary is small and shorter than the stamens?

Robin

[Tony Willis]

Do these come before or with the leaves John?

Lesley in reply to your question to John here are two pictures which illustrate the plants with flowers.On the first the flowers are hanging to the right under the leaf and on the second I have held the leaf up to show them.This year each of these plants is just 1 metre high, the delavayi are of course much shorter.

Robin a flower from my two Podophyllum versipelle stripped of petals which I hope answers your question.

[Lesley Cox]

Those look very exciting.

[johnw]

Robin - Here is the Podophyllum versipelle.  At least we hope it is.

My apologies, the previous posting made was not of P. versipelle but P. pleianthum (corrected now) and P. delavayi.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

John, are the fruits of P. pleianthum white? I remember a photo in an AGS Bulletin of 3 fruits side by side. P. hexandrum was the well-known tomato red, P.  peltatum was bright yellow and P. pleianthum was just about pure white. They made a super trio and I always wanted pleianthum since first seeing them.

[johnw]

John, are the fruits of P. pleianthum white? I remember a photo in an AGS Bulletin of 3 fruits side by side. P. was the well-known tomato red, P.  peltatum was bright yellow and P. pleianthum was just about pure white. They made a super trio and I always wanted pleianthum since first seeing them.

Lesley  - Here is a shot of the pleianthum (?) fruit from last year. I spoke to Steve Hootman from the Rhododendron Species Foundation when in Germany about this plant; they still haven't made a positive id. I guess you could say the green has a whitish overlay.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

When I have a spare hour or two (raucous laughter here) I'll try and find the issue with the photograph. Even if I can't post the photo as it will be AGS copyright, I could give the reference. Even so, your picture is very interesting. The fruits look quite edible, don't you think? Some kind of passion fruit or feijoa maybe.

[Maggi Young]

I remember a photo in an AGS Bulletin of 3 fruits side by side. P. hexandrum was the well-known tomato red, P.  peltatum was bright yellow and P. pleianthum was just about pure white. They made a super trio and I always wanted pleianthum since first seeing them.
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When I have a spare hour or two (raucous laughter here) I'll try and find the issue with the photograph. Even if I can't post the photo as it will be AGS copyright, I could give the reference.

The article Lesley refers to with the photo of the podophyllum fruits was by pharmacist Belma Konuklugil and botanist Julian Shaw  in the AGS Bulletin Volume 64 of September 1996 (pages 334 to 340) and was entitled "Alpines and Medicines: A look at Podophyllum and Linum"

[Lesley Cox]

Aren't you just brilliant Maggi. At the time I thought to myself that "Maggi will find this for me before I have to put myself out too much."

You see what I mean about a pure white fruit. It must be beautiful in the (living) flesh.

[Kimjy]

Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' flowering 28th May with Corydalis Pere David. 

[Tony Willis]

Aren't you just brilliant Maggi. At the time I thought to myself that "Maggi will find this for me before I have to put myself out too much."

You see what I mean about a pure white fruit. It must be beautiful in the (living) flesh.

That white fruit certainly is lovely but not my experience.Here are some ripe fruits of pleianthum and then cut open to show the seed. They vary between green to greenish yellow when ripe and have a nice bloom on them.The seeds have germinated readily  and in any case the fruit was definitely ripe as it had fallen of the plants I would love to find one with white fruits and maybe Robin can say if he has had any.

[Maggi Young]

Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' flowering 28th May with Corydalis Pere David.  

Hi, Kim,
 good to have you join us. I don't think my 'Spotty Dotty' is going to flower yet, though her leaves are nice and she's growing well!

[Philip MacDougall]

Hi all, A few shots from some of my plants. Getting this close is not always pleasant, P. pleianthum is the most pungent of the lot. Philip

Podophyllum auranticaule1
Podophyllum auranticaule flower
Podophyllum delavayi
Podophyllum delavayi flower1
Podophyllum delavayi flower2
Podophyllum delavayi flower3
Podophyllum delavayi flower4
Podophyllum delavayi pink
Podophyllum hexandrum
Podophyllum pleianthum flower

[Philip MacDougall]

And 2 more. Sorry I forgot to tag names in the first posting maggy.
Podophyllum plieanthum
Podophyllum delavayi
Podophyllum auranticaule
Podophyllum hexandrum
Podophyllum Spotty Dotty