Re: Starting Woodland Plants from Seed

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• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:50:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Janet,

Your experience is in keeping with Norman Deno's [SEED GERMINATION: 
THEORY AND PRACTICE] work on the closely related Cornus suecica.  So dry 
storage probably doesn't affect the bunchberries.  As to taking several 
years to germinate: perhaps the berries need to go through a grouse!

So many woodland plants, and expecially those from regions with rainy 
summers [ie, ne US, east Asia] have seeds that are damaged by dry 
storage, that I assume special treatment is required unless proven otherwise.

Loren Russell, Corvallis, Oregon

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Janet Nancy Yang wrote:

> Loren,
> 
>     I started bunchberry (Cornus canadensis, syn. Chamaepericlymenum) 
> from seed but the germination rate was very low and it took several 
> periods of chilling.
> 
> Janet
> 
> 

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