[pbs] Ungernia post script and question.
James Waddick
jwaddick at kc.rr.com
Sat Sep 6 12:17:19 EDT 2003
>Your observation about the basal plate is quite interesting. Can you
>tell if the tissue is living? Are you suggesting bulblets or some
>kind of runners may form off of them for asexual propagation? It's a
>very curious observation.
Dear All;
Hard to tell from a very small sample, but an article on the
genus shows a branched 'understem' with bulbs only at the end. Mine
looked pretty 'dead', but I suppose that this could produce a new
'branch' (i.e. 'bulbs') from a dormant bud in each node. - if there
actually are and they should be.
If I were really brave, I'd cut this off and plant it
separately to encourage these buds to break and produce new bulbs. I
just don't know all that much about these oddities.
I've never seen this in Lycoris or any other bulb.
Best Jim W.
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