Manfreda oddity

[Matt Maggio]

I was inspecting my seedling crops today, and much to my surprise found this strange Manfreda muculosa...seedling? It's flowering at just over FIVE months in age. Notice the anther visible close to the spent seed coat! This is my first time growing Manfreda from seed, so have no benchmark... but felt it was weird enough to share.

Matt

[Steve Steward]

Maculosa in particular does some weird stuff sometimes. I've seen them shoot up a flower spike from the rhizone a good foot away from the main plant. I've also seem them make the odd bulbil.

SS