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Eucalyptus seed identification

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Posted by organic_spud (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 29, 08 at 11:20

I have a package labelled as containing seeds of Corymbia Ficifolia, Eucalyptus caesia magna, Euc leucoxylon petiolaris, Euc sideroxylon rosea and Euc leucoxylon megalocarpa and wonder if anyone can help me identify which is which, please.

I can see:

- ten flat ovate khaki seeds about 6mm long

- some flat circular black seeds about 2mm across

- some seeds like red tadpoles with black heads about 2mm long

- some orange cylindrical seeds about 1mm across and

- some tiny red and black spheres.

All help gratefully received.

Also, does germination of these species' seeds benefit from soaking on 'Smoke' paper?

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RE: Eucalyptus seed identification

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I've propagated E. caesia ssp. magna and E. leucoxylon before, but I can't remember what the seed looks like unfortunately.

With you second question, no smoke treatment is needed for Eucalyptus sp. at all. They germinate very easily and have a high germination rate, from my experience pretty much 100&. Dead easy to prop from seed!

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I run an online store seeling Australian seed, the ten fCorymbia Ficifolialat ovate khaki seeds about 6mm long would have to be the Corymbia Ficifolia.
Euc sideroxylon rosea and Euc leucoxylon petiolaris are quite similar as in being small and red and black although the E. sideroxylon is a little more orange than red.
(the black are the seed in both these the red or orange is only chaff)
Eucalyptus caesia seed is about 2mm and dark in colour and a little dimpled looking.
Thats about all I can tell you from the details you have.
Hope it helps a little.
All these growing very easy with no pre-treatment.

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