Sandersonia cultivation report

You plant this to grow Sandersonia. Like a snake, like a worm… oh, dangerous. The leaves come out from the end of the tuber and immediately attach the leaves, so it feels like the leaves of the tree are on the ground.

Surprisingly normal-shaped leaves compared to suspicious tubers.

It’s growing very fast. That dubious tuber is actually a mass of power and energy. Strange shape though.

Already buds! “You’re precocious.”

The Sandersonia flower, where a small ball emerges from between the leaves, slowly swells, and turns yellow as if a light is on. The hanging shape is just like a lantern, right? “I understand why it’s called the “Chinese Lantern”.”

As seed clusters begin to form inside the lantern-shaped flowers, their weight causes the flowers to slowly descend to the ground.

A lantern-shaped flower that wraps around the seed cluster and delivers it to the ground. What a caring flower.

After finishing its role, green seed clusters can be seen through the gaps between the flowers that have begun to wither and disappear.

Seeds wrapped in flowers and protected by seed clusters are happy people.

The flowers, leaves, and stems have all withered, and the seed clusters have finally withered to a sepia color. Seeing them trying to send out seeds gives me a sense of the vitality of Sandersonia, which will lead to a new generation.

From the tip of the pod, which has turned from green to sepia, comes a wheat-colored seed.

When the seed clusters were completely withered, Sandersonia, which had dropped all the seeds to the ground, ended its short life.