Re: Davidia involucrata (Dove Tree)

Hi all!

    You folks like my new email address?  Cool, eh?


<<Growing from seed is my ideal, but I will continue to try cuttings too.  It has also occurred to me that even though it bears abundant fruit, it might not be fertile.  I do not know if this is a possibility.  Although there are other dove trees on the university campus and at nearby arboreta, none are within pollinating range.>>

This flowering season you might consider taking a Q-tip of small paint brush and collecting a little pollen from one of those university trees, and hand pollinating a bloom or two or five.  Make sure you mark which ones with a ribbon or something so that you collect the proper fruit when it is ripe.  Of course this assumes you are correct about the tree not being self-fertile.  I wouldn't have a clue.  I don't have a clue.  I play Monopoly instead.  You just have to watch out for the government anti-trust business.  They seem ever more active.  

I ....  Think ... I'm....  Breaking uppppp......

Glider

(or maybe cracking up....)


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