Pollinating Cryptocoryne

From: "Jan D. Bastmeijer" <crypts at bart.nl> on 1998.03.18 at 15:23:28(1962) Deansliger wrote: > I've read conflicting reports that Cryptocorynes are self-sterile, but I've > never had two plants of the same species blooming at the same time so I > haven't been able to test that theory myself. The situation in Cryptocoryne is quite clear. When the spathe opens, the female flowers will accept pollen for about 24 hours. The male flowers ripen in about three days, you you'll have to use two inflorescenses. Niels Jacobsen made some crossings in the 70's, showing the hybrid origin of C. willisii. Just now there is some exitement in the crypts MG on crossings with a triploid parent, reported from Alexei Bednii from Moldova. Jan Bastmeijer +More http://www.noord.bart.nl/~crypts/index.html

From: Deansliger <Deansliger at aol.com> on 1998.03.19 at 03:08:31(1966) Jan Bastmeijer writes: << The situation in Cryptocoryne is quite clear. When the spathe opens, the female flowers will accept pollen for about 24 hours. The male flowers +More ripen in about three days, you you'll have to use two inflorescenses.>> Yes, but will the female flowers accept pollen from the male flowers of the same plant? That was my question about Anubias. Dean Sliger

From: Matyas Buzgo <buzgo at systbot.unizh.ch> on 1998.03.19 at 15:56:24(1967) Dear Dean & Jan In Cryptocoryninae I saw, male flowers open generally only a day later than the female flowers are receptive. In Lagenandra ovata and L. praetermissa cultivated in Zurich and Basle (Switzerland), the whet stigma of the female flowers are wilting then (Crypros are jsut too small to see for me, and often whet). This implies that pollen of at least the same inflorescence is not accepted in Cryptocoryninae. +More _________ \___/ | ( = 0 )* --oooo-(_)-oooo-------------------- Matyas Buzgo Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich CH-8008 Zurich / Switzerland buzgo@systbot.unizh ch On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Deansliger wrote: > Jan Bastmeijer writes: > > << The situation in Cryptocoryne is quite clear. When the spathe opens, the > female flowers will accept pollen for about 24 hours. The male flowers > ripen in about three days, you you'll have to use two inflorescenses.>> > > Yes, but will the female flowers accept pollen from the male flowers of the > same plant? That was my question about Anubias. > > Dean Sliger > >

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