Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Lasia spinosa, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Rachel, sorry for not getting back earlier. It appears the stem with the berry cluster was waiting for when it fell into water. I kept it hooked up out of the water and it went a couple of years without doing anything. Eventually it went into the water and I didn't notice until later. By then the berries had come off and were floating around. Probably a response to wet season flooding which would disperse the seeds. Anyway, I collected them up and placed them in water in a container. Didn't take long for some to germinate, some still haven't germinated. I put some of the germinated ones in pots and they've grown a bit. One is white, perhaps going to be variegated? Or perhaps going to die when it's food source, the seed, runs out. I'll see how it turns out. Don't know what sort of a market there'd be for variegated Lasia spinosa. Some of the seedlings are a plain but very healthy looking green. I really don't need any more of these, but it's nice to get plants going right through their cycle.