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Australian National Botanic Gardens
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Acacia |
Seed |
Aug-Sept |
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Allocasuarina |
Seed * |
Summer and |
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Angophora |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Anigozanthos |
Division (virus tested stock) |
Sept-Nov |
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Seed-fresh |
Sept-Nov |
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Araucaria |
Cuttings * seed |
Dec-Feb |
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Asplenium |
Spores-2-3 weeks after ripening |
Mar - May |
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Backhousia |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Baeckia |
Soft tip cuttings |
Dec-April |
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Banksia |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Bauera |
Soft tip cuttings* |
Sept-Oct |
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Billardiera |
Seed-difficult |
Mar-May |
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Blandfordia |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Boronia |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Brachychiton |
Seeds (wear gloves & mask- |
Sept-Nov |
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Brachyscome |
Seed * |
Sept-Nov |
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Brachysema |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Bracteantha |
Seed |
all year |
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Callistemon |
Seed from one-year-old woody fruits |
Sept-Nov |
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Callitris |
Seed-viable for several years |
Mar-May |
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Calothamnus |
Seed-place one-year-old or older |
Sept-Nov |
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Cassia |
Seed * |
Sept-Nov |
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Clematis |
Seed-fresh |
Sept |
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Correa |
Soft tip cuttings * |
Jan-Mar |
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Crowea |
Soft tip cuttings |
Jan-Mar |
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Cyathea |
Spores-2-3 weeks after ripening |
Mar-May |
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Dampiera |
Soft tip cuttings* |
Sept-Nov |
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Darwinia |
Seeds cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Dendrobium |
Division |
Mar-May |
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Dianella |
Division |
Mar-May |
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Dicksonia |
Spores-2-3 weeks after ripening |
Mar-May |
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Dillwynia |
Seed |
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Dodonaea |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Doryanthes |
Seed-soak for several hours * |
Sept-Nov |
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Drosera |
Division |
Mar-May |
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Dryandra |
Seeds |
Sept-Nov |
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Epacris |
Seeds |
Sept-Nov |
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Eremophila |
Soft tip cuttings * |
Sept-Nov |
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Eriostemon |
Soft tip cuttings * |
Mar-May |
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Eucalyptus |
Seed |
Sept-Mar |
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Ficus |
Seed-fresh cuttings |
varies |
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Gahnia |
Seed |
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Goodenia |
Seed |
Dec-Feb |
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Grevillea |
Soft tip cuttings |
Dec-Mar |
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Hakea |
Seed (sun dry woody fruit) |
Sept-Nov |
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Hardenbergia |
Seeds * |
Sept-Nov |
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Hibbertia |
cuttings |
Summer |
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Hovea |
Seed |
Summer |
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Indigofera |
Seed * |
Sept-Oct |
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Isopogon |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Jasminum |
Seed-pre-treatment |
. |
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Kennedia |
Seed * |
Sept-Nov |
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Kunzea |
Soft tip cuttings * |
Feb-Apr |
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Lambertia |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Lechenaultia |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Leptospermum |
Seeds * |
Sept-Nov |
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Livistonia |
Seed |
. |
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Lomandra |
Seed |
Mar-May |
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Macadamia |
Seed-as soon as ripe |
. |
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Macrozamia |
Seed |
. |
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Melaleuca |
Seed* |
Sept-Nov |
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Melia |
Seed (poisonous) |
Sept-Nov |
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Myoporum |
Soft tip cuttings * |
Sept-Mar |
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Nothofagus |
Seed |
. |
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Olearia |
Soft tip cuttings |
. |
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Pandorea |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-Mar |
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Pepperomia |
Leaf cuttings* |
all year |
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Persoonia |
Seed (difficult) |
Sept-Mar |
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Phebalium |
Soft tip cuttings |
. |
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Pimelea |
Soft tip cuttings* |
Nov-Dec |
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Pittosporum |
Seed |
. |
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Pomaderris |
Seed |
. |
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Prostanthera |
Soft tip cuttings |
Nov-Dec |
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Pultaneae |
Seed cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Quandong |
Seed (moist, dark, stratification) |
. |
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Scaevola |
Soft tip cuttings |
. |
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Sollya |
Seed |
Sept-Nov |
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Syzygium |
Soft tip cuttings |
Dec-Mar |
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Telopea |
Seed |
Jun-Jul |
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Thryptomene |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-May |
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Verticordia |
Soft tip cuttings |
Sept-Nov |
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Viola |
Division* |
all year |
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Westringia |
Soft tip cuttings* |
Mar-May |
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Xanthorrhoea |
Seeds |
Sept-Nov |
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Zieria |
Soft tip cuttings |
Dec-Mar |
* easy
# difficult
Heat treat seeds by soaking in near boiling waterand allowing to cool (e.g. Acacia species) or sun drying woody fruits (e.g. Banksia species)
or
Scarification - i.e. abrading of seed coat with sandpaper or a file.