Dear Shmuel, I hope very much that you can collect Sternbergia seed, there seems to be two different varieties available. One is sterile and does not produce seed, the other (which looks just like it) is fertile and produces seed. When you collect the seed please look to see if there is anything that looks like a seed or bulb growing maybe on a stem or leave base. Some plants put out tiny bulbs to reproduce if they don't produce seed. Many lilies do this. Thanks for your help-Russ H. PS: Yes here in the USA Sternbergia blooms in the fall,it has a golden color. I also work with Iris from desert areas. I would gladly buy any seed from iris you can collect. Just note size of plant, any trace of flower color and any details about the seed source plant. Thanks Russ Hintz, email is jadeboy48@aol.com In a message dated 4/4/2013 11:56:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gardenbetter@gmail.com writes: Am I mistaken? Sternbergia lutea here is an autumn bloomer. It is native herein Israel and I will be on the lookout for seed. I wonder if the ones I planted are actually from native stock or if they made the "great circle route" and are imported by the nursery trade from Holland? Shmuel Silinsky Jerusalem Israel zone 9, winter rain - dry summer On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:34 AM, <Jadeboy48@aol.com> wrote: > Dear Jim ,Thanks for your information. I am very familiar when you have a > self sterility problem with certain flowers. As a retired grower once I > know once other growers find a clone of something that grows well and has > some > good qualities growers will just multiply that clone.The problem is losing > genetic diversity. One disease can wipe out a susceptible clone and then it > is gone, maybe forever.-Russ H. > > > In a message dated 3/29/2013 5:48:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > jshields@indy.net writes: > > Another possibility is that we are seeing one single clone making up the > commercial stock of Sternbergia. It is probably self-sterile, as many > other plants in the Amaryllidaceae are. All you might need to get seeds > would be some live pollen from a different clone of the same species. > > Another problem is that S. lutea occurs as triploid (2n = 3x = 33) as well > as the diploid (2n = 22) form. Triploids are usually sterile. See: > http://cites.com/ > > http://bulbs.myspecies.info/content/… > > I would guess that you will have to find seeds of the diploid form, from > one of the seed exchanges or from someone like the Archibalds. Good > luck! > > Jim Shields > > > > > At 08:23 PM 3/29/2013 +1300, you wrote: > >Russ, Sternbergia does not set seed. It is something to do with diploi d > >or whatever. Do you have one which does set seed, as there is a seed > >setting one. But the most often grown one does not set seed. > > > >Ina > > ************************************************* > Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 > P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ > Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA > Lat. 40° 02.8' N, Long. 086° 06.6' W > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/