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The information on this page may be cited as a communication with professor Thomas Mione, Central Connecticut State University, Biology Department, Copernicus Hall, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050-4010

All photos on this page are of D. M. Spooner et al. 7045 (Mione accession 321), Guatemala, 1930 m; photos by T. Mione, August 2002, on plants grown for study in Connecticut.

One of the most interesting features of this accession is that the filaments never angle out, away from the style, as they do during the functionally hermaphroditic phase on all other accessions of Jaltomata procumbens I have seen. In the photo below, note how the filaments parallel each other on the functionally hermaphroditic (left) flower.

Above. Flower on right is pistillate; the next day it will look like the flower on the left, and be functionally hermaphroditic.

Above. Flower on left is pistillate; the next day it will look like the flower on the right, and be functionally hermaphroditic.

Guatemala. Chiquimula: on lower N-facing slopes of mountain cresting at 2,054 m, just north of Cerro Mudo, a one hour walk south of the end of a road at 9 km S of junction of Rt. CA12 ... 1,930 m; D. M. Spooner et al. 7045.

Above: Ripe fruits photographed on 1 Nov. 2002.

Miscellaneous Notes about accession 321:
After a fruit ripens, it remains attached for weeks to the parent plant. During the fall of 2002 I had plants growing under lights, and none of the ripe fruits fell to the floor.

Seed Germination