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Amazing plant I didn't know Jim Thank you !
The wonderful thing about this forum is that we learn more and more that we know less and less. Thanks for enlightening us on this amazing plant Jim.
Jim,Proiphys has an unusual fruit.... the whole fruit is the seed, it doesn't "contain" seed. If that fruit is left it itself it will put out a radical, even though if you cut one open it appears to be a green ball with nothing in it. It is like Calostemma in this regard.... if you cut open the fruit you are destroying it, but left intact it works. You just leave the fruit sitting on the surface and it will start sprouting, and in Calostemma you can get them germinating at times while still attached to the peduncle. I think that in Calostemma almost every flower sets seed, but some abort a little later. I've wondered whether apomixy is involved, given how freely Calostemma set seed. My Proiphys have unfortunately never flowered for me, so I can help with other clones or anything like that.