Seed reference record
Heliotropium curassavicum
Heliotropiaceae · Indigenous
This species has measurements but has not been photographed yet. Imaging the remaining records to the same three-orientation standard is part of the funded work.
Images © Lyon Arboretum Rare Plant Program Seeds Lab, served from SeedsOfHawaii.org
Measured
- 1.78–1.85 mm
- length
- 1–1.12 mm
- width
- 0.66–0.9 mg
- mass
- Heliotropium
- genus
Storage behaviour
orthodox
Desiccation-tolerant. Can be dried below 12% moisture and stored at freezing temperatures.
Whether a seed can be dried and frozen decides whether it can be banked at all — which is the first question a seed laboratory asks and one no identification tool usually answers.
Dormancy
No pre-treatment recorded.
Seeds of a similar size
An unknown seed of this size could be any of these. That is the practical value of a measured reference set: it says what a specimen might be confused with, and by how little.
