Re: Propagation/Germination



William Glover wrote:

> On 7/07/01 10:46 AM John Schlesinger (johnsaia@dnai.com) wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know germination conditions for seeds of Pandorea pandorana?
>
> A ubiquitous plant hereabouts and usually propagated from cuttings. But
> easily started from seeds lightly covered and kept moist and warm.
> Germination is usually rapid.
>

Thanks for the tip.  My vine is growing in a pot, and bloomed for the first
time this year after about 3 years, blooms starting about 12 feet up.  I
found the flowers an attractive pink, but small - about 1/2 inch across.  In
trying to gather the seeds, I observed that they are extremely light -
thinner than the thinnest onion-skin paper, and in in snipping off the pods
with a hedge shears overhead (an inconvenient place for a ladder), most
drifted off without the slightest breeze.  It is easy to see how this type of
seed could allow dispersal over great distances, especially if the flowers
were growing  high in a tree.
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