Re: peony seed?

A friend who uses the seed just told me that on the P. obovata seed the blue
ones are the ripe seed.  On tree P those brown ones apparently mature to a
darker brown to black.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] peony seed?


> My guess would be the peanuts are fertile seeds and the crescents are
> misfires.
>
> On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 07:07 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > I left a couple of blooms on the tree peony to form seed in case I
> > consider
> > doing anything with it.  They've finally swolen enough to pop open,
> > but I
> > don't know what's what in there.  There are rows of tiny little
> > crescent
> > shaped seeds in there but there are also some shiny brown peas in
> > there,
> > about the size of a spanish peanut.  So what's what here?
> >
> > The Paeonia obovata (re Patriotic Peony) bright red seeds are similar
> > to
> > this shiny brown one and are now falling to the ground.  Is this fresh
> > seed
> > ready for planting or does it need to be aged?  Would it then shrivel
> > and
> > need to be opened to retrieve seed?
> >
> > Anyone ever worked with these before?
> >
> > Kitty
> >
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