Cypripedium seeds

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Date:Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:48:25 EST5EDT
       From:  Ross Greenberg <ROSS@UMS1.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
    

A neighbour sent away for seeds of Cypripedium calceolus var.
pubescens (Yellow Lady Slipper), and received 2 plump seed pods. The
instructions note that "seedlings will not emerge the first year."
After doing some research, I wonder if that should be amended
"...nor any subsequent year."

H.L. Foster's book reports that nobody has ever succeeded in
germinating seeds in any medium; G.S. Thomas the same; other
sources, ditto, with much talk of necessary soil fungi.

Has there been any progress in recent years? Any success outside the
laboratory? Of course I'll encourage my neighbour to sow the seeds
anyway.

Ross Greenberg
Montreal, Quebec, Canada z5


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