two seeds emerging

[kwmarko]

Yesterday I noticed an older flower spike, which at the time of bloom I had no male flowers to pollenate it with. Then a while back noticed there was one seed pod onthe very end...the last flower on that particular Captain Gilbert Cutler. Well, yesterday I notice two seedlings that have sprouted right there on the flower spike..... unusual? I ask... seems so to me. Any comments would be appreciated.

 

[Bullwinkle]

???Maybe others have seen this but I have not!!!

 

[pocomo]

I would expect that to be the old flower spike acting like a stem and producing a new growth from it. It doesn't have the shape of a seedlings growth and appears to have the leaf shape of new growth. I've had that happen before.

 

[kwtimo]

I saw these all over a Dreadlocks the other day. As you can see, there is a range of sizes of development from the old flower spikes.

 

[Jerry Shilling]

I know this plant.

 

[Emmylou]

I have also found several seedlings on old bloom spikes on Dreadlocks. Never seen it on anything else. Marnie

 

[kurt decker]

not seedlings, more like kikis on an orchid spike. george zammas told me his wizard of oz produced a plantlet this way, he grew it out, and it turned out to be red wizard.

 

[kwtimo]

Now I'm looking for this particular development on crotons. I found two more cultivars today: Chief and Tiger Eye.