[10]2000/05/20
[work] Mating of Tsuruumemodoki(Celastrus orbiculatus)











"Tsuruumemodoki(Celastrus orbiculatus) " that a little white flower is blooming to hide behind the leaf. Round dark-brown fruit is settled, and a red seed peeps from the inside in autumn. But, fruit doesn't grow. Male and female different stock.
There are male trees and female trees, and it is female tree to put fruit. When it is seen well, it knows a difference in the flower. Pistil can't be seen, and stamen of the yellow pollen is conspicuous as for the male flower attached to the male tree. As for the female flower, pistil grows long.
If there is one male tree, a female tree is only put on that circumference, and natural mating is arranged. If it is worried, a female flower is put with tweezers, and artificial mating which one puts on each of the female flowers is good, too.

Iwaumezuru (Celastrus flagellaris) of the approximate kind is the same with the male and female different stock, too.