Foxy Lady seeds

[Neil C]

A trip to the Roma st parklands in Brisbane today found as least one of the Foxy ladies there dropping heaps of seeds. In fact most had fallen on the road and been squashed by passing cars. I collected a few and wondered if these might be viable? I cut one open and it certainly isn't hollow. Has anyone else collected from these trees or anywhere else and had any luck with germination. Thanks for any replies

Regards Neil

 

[comic097]

Gday Neil 

I too have tried germinating from the same trees at Roma st with no luck mate.

Paul 

[Tropicgardener]

I did try on a number of occasions to re-invent the wheel........... Have tried seed from a number of different Foxy Ladies but haven't ever raised any.

[Pal Meir]

There is even no real endosperm inside the fruit (seed = embryo + endosperm).

[greysrigging]

Even though they are red and ripe looking......mmm .....well they dont really look mature, that is, the ripe seeds in the Top End are a bigger diameter, sorta a bit more round barrel shaped. Not very scientific lol, but those seeds look underdone. And in any case,  I have had Foxtail seeds sprouting up to a year after planting......way after I had given up on them.

[Zeeth]

I successfully sprouted a foxy lady seed a few months ago but it died shortly thereafter due to some irrigation issues.

[Neil C]

Thanks for all the replies. I take it from Pal's labelling of the photo that the endosperm should fill up a much larger portion of the seed and looking again at the photo that most of the seed is just fibre. Oh well might just try a few for fun just in case some of the other seeds have a larger endosperm.

 

Regards Neil

[Pal Meir]

For comparison fruit & seed of Normanbya (I don’t have seeds of Wodyetia or Veitchia now):

[PalmatierMeg]

The endosperm in that Foxy Lady seed is an odd color: reddish brown. Normal endosperms I've seen are white.

[Silas_Sancona]

Agree with Meg, endo should be white. Also agree that 9 times out of 10, seed on these ends up being hollow, or malformed/ not viable.

That being said, I also had germinated a couple, possibly from the same specimen as Keith back in Florida, but they also didn't make it past the germination stage. Best, most likely to germinate seed were big and heavy compared to others collected. Luckily, there were both Veitchia and Foxtail specimens seeding at the same time / place to compare these to when I was able to collect. Always wondered if, out of all the seed both the Veitchia and Foxtail would drop, if any were back crossed with the foxy.