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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: WimB on March 14, 2011, 09:07:18 PM

Title: Corydalis cashmeriana
Post by: WimB on March 14, 2011, 09:07:18 PM

I'm looking for some seeds of Corydalis cashmeriana, but I haven't been able to find them anywhere. Maybe someone here knows where I might be able to obtain some of these?

Title: Re: Corydalis cashmeriana
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 14, 2011, 09:23:20 PM

I wonder whether C. cashmiriana sets pure seed in cultivation or even at all much? I've never seen seed either on my own (which I've had since 1965!) or advertised anywhere or in a seed exchange. It is not entirely infertile because it has hybridised with C. flexuosa or elata on a couple of occasions (not for me) and one of these hybrids is sometimes available from a NZ nursery (Hokonui Alpines). I think C. cashmiriana was the seed parent so to that extent it sets seed but maybe not with its own pollen.

Have there been new collections of this species since the original way back in whatever year that was?

Title: Re: Corydalis cashmeriana
Post by: WimB on March 17, 2011, 08:29:49 AM

Thanks Lesley,

then I'll probably just have to buy a plant!

Title: Re: Corydalis cashmeriana
Post by: WimB on March 21, 2011, 08:48:53 AM

Got a plant today from a very generous forumnist. Thank you very much!