Andreas Wistuba Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 A few pictures of Myrmephytum beccarii from the Philippines. Note the brown stems. Whole plant: Details: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Jaguar Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 These are two photos taken this past weekend of an F1 plant that I selected out of a batch of seedlings that I grew out of my original import from the Philippines in 2007. This plant is two and one-half years old, appears to be polyploid, and has already generated plenty of seedlings of its own, so I'm now into my second generation of artificially-propagated Myrmephytum beccarii. Grown in a bay window in northern California. Ant rubiacs are not particularly know for their showy flowers, but this species is very nice when in "mass" bloom. Unfortunately, my camera could not capture the intensity of the blues, nor the flowers on the oppositive side of the stem, so you'll just have to use your imagination and Andreas' image above for true color reference. The second photo shows a couple flowers fully open. Note the distinctive, six-lobed corollas and jackknife lobes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Wistuba Posted September 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 These are two photos taken this past weekend of an F1 plant that I selected out of a batch of seedlings that I grew out of my original import from the Philippines in 2007. This plant is two and one-half years old, appears to be polyploid Hello Jay, why do you think it's polyploid? Does it grow bigger than the others? It should be possible to check the surface of this and another one under the Stereo-Microscope. If the cells of this one are considerably bigger than the cells of another plant this also is a good hint to polyploidy. However, to be sure you'd need to stain and count chromosomes. That's usually done from root-tips. All the best Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Jaguar Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Andreas: Thanks for the suggestions. Yes, I am aware that I need to have a lab look at this to be certain, hence my qualifying note that it "appears to be..." The growth differential on this plant versus its held back siblings at this point is absolutely staggering and it is also far more vigorous and precocious than its parent plant. Of the numerous ant rubiacs I have grown to flowering size from seed, certainly numbering into high hundreds of plants at this juncture, this particular individual is the only one that has shown anything like this rate of growth. Just in case it's in a "magic growing position", I just hung one of my kajewskii seedlings right beside it ;^) It will be interesting to see how its seedlings progress. Cheers, J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Wistuba Posted September 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Hi Jay, this sounds very very interesting. Is the offspring also growing that fast? All the best Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Jaguar Posted September 23, 2014 Report Share Posted September 23, 2014 Hi, Andreas. Still too early to determine since F2 seed mostly sown in late spring. Thus far, very uniform batches of strong seedlings but nothing startling. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mato Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 Striving towards Andreas' beautiful plant above, here are some seedlings I am currently growing atop a pot shared with N. albomarginata. I received these as seeds from Jay sometime ago, and they seem to do be doing well enough so far. Germination was 100%, so I have a few others scattered about in different locations. Myrmephytum beccarii by Aspidistra Flier, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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