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native hibiscus seeding
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Posted by moksha SA Aust (My Page) on Fri, Feb 5, 10 at 18:54
| With Alyogyne hakeifolia varieties I've noticed the purple flowering one self-seeds but the white/yellow one doesn't.
Can anyone else confirm or deny? It doesn't make sense to me that one does and the other doesn't but I've seen it more than once. |
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RE: native hibiscus seeding
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That's really interesting, Moksha.
I wonder whether it might be that the pollinator of the white/yellow one is simply not present in your district?
Do you know which part of Australia it is actually native to?
could it be that it needs a very specific pollinator, and can only set seed if it is grown in an area where this pollinator also lives?
(Perhaps hand-pollinating the flowers would produce some seeds for you?)
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RE: native hibiscus seeding
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| Well they're both in my garden, white in front and purple out the back. Ants love the flowers on both plants - before, during and after flowering, so I think they're the pollinators of the purple. I was wondering if it might have something to do with hybridization. I think the purple is the natural colour while the white and pink are man-made so to speak. I might be wrong there though. |
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