i have had Podophyllums for approx 15 years and have not really wanted to hybridize them even tho most of the ones i have are hybrids. i have P. delavayi a specie plus the synonym Veitchii which actually acts & looks a little different & P. spotty dotty a hybrid & P. kaledoscope a hybrid which all look sorta similar
and i decided to cross them this year even tho this is the first year delavayi did not flower i think because i moved it and it is still recovering. P. delavayi flowers at the y junction of the 2 stems


P. kaleidoscope flowers at the junction of one of the leaves


P. spotty dotty flowers approx 2/3 of the way up one of the stems


i crossed spotty dotty & kaleidoscope and half (approx 5) of the spotty dottys grew an extra stem at the flower junction after pollination making it look like delavayi its mother plant


i have never heard of this and searching can not find anything about it
the brits have been hybridizing Podophyllums for more then a decade and i have also ask them if they are familiar with this trait of spotty dotty, and they said "never had seen it"
has someone here seen this ?

Sorry I have no information for you but the guy up at keeping it green nursery is doing some amazing work with these plants. You might E-mail him see if he will share any info. The open days at the nursery is finished after the end of June so he might have time to respond. Dan Hinkley is another you might try E-mailing, might get a response.
http://danieljhinkley.com/cont...

update
well all those seed i thought i would have
became a total of 5 seed from spotty dotty
will update again when/if they sprout next spring hopefully

Hoping for success.

well 5 is better than zero. Let us know in the spring what comes up.

looks like one of the 5 seed is going to happen

One is also better than zero! I can't wait to see what they look like when bigger.

so am i Mary
like i mentioned earlier the Brits have been doing podophyllums for years and they said they never had success on this particular cross

update
the sgl did not make it, not sure why
and both Dan Hinkley and the owner of Green Nursery had not heard of the extra leaf
so i did it again this spring and it looks like i will have a lot of seed this time
i already have some seed larger then last time and from P. kaleidoscope this time
and there are more yet to come
the seed pods are larger this year also

Hope you have better luck this time around.

Well drat about the seedling loss. This sounds good for next year with more and stronger seeds.Did the seedling wither away? get eaten by bugs? Died of smoke inhalation from the fires? Stolen by tiny Martians to be used as a tent?

i think it was the tiny underground martians that snuck into the soil of that pot
i will update as more seedpods produce

Pistil said:Well drat about the seedling loss. This sounds good for next year with more and stronger seeds.Did the seedling wither away? get eaten by bugs? Died of smoke inhalation from the fires? Stolen by tiny Martians to be used as a tent?

as i said i have more large seed pods this year
so i decided to take picts this time
here is a Kaleidoscope seed pod that was pollinated with spotty dotty

and the seed are in a goop that is really difficult to remove

but after a few minutes work 6 more seed of the Kaleidoscope/SpottyDotty

then i got a cpl of the Spotty Dotty seed pods pollinated with Kaleidoscope
as you can see the goop around the seed is not so gooey



i have decided to try the seed in artificial this time hoping
SpottyDotty/Kaleidoscope seed


Kaleidoscope/SpottyDotty seed




i left 2 seed pods of each to see what happens leaving them longer on the plants
will update when i take them

Keep us updated.
Do you think you could upload the pod/fruit and seed photos to the Podophyllum entry in the Plant Database?

Mary
i don't know why i didn't
i guess i'm getting forgetful in my old age :)
will do so

Pistil said:Keep us updated.
Do you think you could upload the pod/fruit and seed photos to the Podophyllum entry in the Plant Database?

the seed are starting to come up
and the Spotty Dotty pollinated with Kaleidoscope henceforth called (SDK) are coming up first


the Kaleidoscope seed pollinated with SpottyDotty henceforth (KSD) are having some fungus problems but are trying to come up

How exciting!

It looks like you have quite a few going, hope they do well for you.

you are correct Bob
i hope i can get a cpl up of each and acting like plants this time
third time is the charm
correct ?

today the KSD seed are doing better after a light homemade fungicide spray