Julia
are you the only Podopyllum nutt in your part of the world ?
i would expect a bunch in your area with the 2 great nurserys carrying them up there

i was going back over some of my picts from when i first received some Podophyllum delavayi's in 2004 when i was still in So Calif. & i find some strange discrepancy's, all the plants were identified as P. delavayi and some showed dark red no fuzz stems and some showed greenish light pink no fuzz stems all being called delavayi. i lost most all these plants when i moved north.


the P. delavayi i have now have the greenish with very light pink stems with fuzz
and smooth green stems

maybe Veitchii really is a specie ???

and as i mentioned previously i am paying more attention to all of the podo's this year
and something else i have noticed is the others (aurantiocaule, hexandrum, pleiantum, versipelle, & the diffome) all seem to have smooth green stems.

Kaleidoscope and spotty dotty both have fuzzy stems but spotty dotty has a dark red stem


you are wondering where am i going with all this info ??

the stems of the seedling crosses of kaleidoscope x spotty dotty cross and visa versa are not following the parents above it seems. both crosses seem to be more influenced by kaleidoscope whether as a seed parent or as a pollen parent

another point of all of my new observations is that
Guangxi which is supposed to be the same as Galaxy which is supposed to be the same as Kaleidoscope
all have a fuzzy stem and the leaves all look similar


and somewhere more then once it has been mentioned these might be a specie
https://www.plantdelights.com/...

so if i have crossed a specie with a hybrid of this specie then is that why all the off spring have mostly the specie characteristics ?

You would think so but some should show traits of the other parent plant. I have done 2 hybrids that look similar and results pretty much looked nothing like either parent. That was with Heuchera though.

Dick, this is my Spotty Dotty, at least that was the name it was given when I purchased it, no red stem, so wondering if it is another one.

Wow RJ
i have more then 100 spotty dotty's around here and not a one of mine look like that
it does have the fuzzy stem so it has some of Kaleidoscope in it i think- maybe
have you had it flower ? if so where was the flowers located ? has it ever had any dark mottling ?
i would be happy to send you some of my spotty dottys for shipping

crawgarden said:Dick, this is my Spotty Dotty, at least that was the name it was given when I purchased it, no red stem, so wondering if it is another one.

I will have to check my Spotty Dotty when it comes up, I do not remember red but could be wrong.

Just was thinking RJ did you get yours from the re-release of Spotty Dotty or the original release. Mine came from the re-release. Dick I would think you have original plants, I wonder if there is a difference.

i have not seen any of the as you call it re-release or 2nd release
can you show us some picts of yours Bob ?
they are being offered again now as we speak and the picts being shown look the same to me

No, I screwed up the first pic was a Astilboldies, here is my Spotty Dotty, I will look this year at the stem.
Thanks for the offer Dick!

now those look like Spotty Dottys

i think i have come up with the answer to my mystery plant above
as i said it is dark and the dark i am familiar with is delavayi
and last year i brought 2 delavayi's into the green house and i thought i returned them
but i'm guessing i only returned one
plus the mystery plant has grown a little more and i now can see the stem clearly
and it is smooth green with a hint of pink, the same as it's siblings in the garden

and it looks like i have another candidate for kaleidoscope pollen
one of the Sunrise is sprouting some flowers

Wow, thats way cool!

Wow
am i excited now
out in the greenhouse again and looking and paying closer attention to everybody and what do i see ?
something not possible this soon one of my seedling crosses is going to flower

This is last Spring as 2nd year plants but you can not see stems to see color. They also never got the markings on your plants. Leaves got about 4 inches wide. And one went dormant about a month before the other so not sure it will come back. Hoping year 3 will bring a larger plant with markings.

Dick have you considered crossing Red and Brown Panda to see if you can get more dark ones.

once SD are established as yours seem to be they will send runners and start making baby SD's
i bet i have dug more then 100 baby's up over the years
not sure what makes the darker mottling whether it is heat or sunlight
i don't have the brown one Bob, just got the permission to post their pict
but a dark one sure would be cool, my red is pretty green at this time
here is the latest image, still pretty small, hope it turns some red with age

They are in a pretty shady area, might have to try moving one if they both come back or get some more to try in different locations.

this is becoming a really interesting spring for me
one of the Imperial Sunrise is springing up with flower buds
and the next one below it is also showing some flower buds
you need to click the pict to see all of it

Looks good. Have you decided what to cross it with? Also looks like 4 are coming up is that more then it had when you bought it last year? I was looking at it on Keeping it Green but they want 46 dollars shipping for 1 plant to N.J. I want to see how the ones I get this year do before getting it.