Sternbergia

Ina Crossley klazina1@gmail.com
Tue, 11 May 2010 14:38:13 PDT
Mine is the lutea variety, sorry, I forgot to mention that.  It is such 
a cheery bulb.  And have been told they can be hard to get to flower, 
but have had no problems with that.

And thanks Jim, I don't know anything about the triploid etc thing, but 
did think it could be something like that.  So will wait to see what Ben 
has to add perhaps.

Jim McKenney wrote:
> Ina wrote: " Carolyn mentioned that they never 
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> set viable seed, which set me off wondering if it is possible at all.
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> As I have various Amarylid family bulbs, which can all be increased by 
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> growing from seed, I find it strange that the Sternbergias set not one 
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> seed.  So am wondering why.  And if it IS possible."
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> Ina, Sternbergia do set seed - or at least some of them do. From my personal
> experience, I know that S. clusiana, S. greuteriana and S. sicula set viable
> seed. 
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> However, I have never heard of the big commercial form (the only form most
> of us grow) of Sternbergia lutea setting seed. I've long suspected that this
> is triploid or aneuploid, perhaps even of hybrid origin. 
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> Perhaps Ben Zonneveld will add something to this.
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