long-distance seed I.D.
Diane Whitehead (Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:29:10 PST)

I'm cleaning off my kitchen counter to make room for Christmas
cooking. Most of the stuff littering it is plant-related, including
little saucers of seeds, most lacking a label. I can tell the
rhododendrons and onions, but one lot was a mystery. The seedpods had
opened to a flower-like shape and released three sweet pea-sized seeds
per pod. I took a photo and posted it on the Scottish Rock Garden
Club forum. Within a couple of hours, an Australian had identified
them as from a South African Wachendorfia. I looked through my photos
from my trip there, and found one of a plant covered in furry 3-part
seedpods. I hope they will still germinate.

Diane Whitehead
Canada