It does Kadie. I had been following this topic and all the while understanding that their reproductive parts where all within the same flower.. Glad that you confirmed this and shared your findings here.

Rick

Hi Kadie that was me I thank but what I ment was the female flower is the flower that receives the pollan the mail is the flower the pollan is taken from sorry if I didn't make it clear

roger

Kadie the red flower in quote the one by the seeds at the bottom of the page I have one like it a very easy plant to pollinate but my plants DNA is so strong that all I can get from it is red flowers like the mother plant l have crossed it with white triples yellow triples and everything has always been red if anybody would like seeds I have over 100 seeds and three more seeds pods to give away I'm going to give up on this plant it makes a good tree lots of branches but red flowers

Roger

Roger,

I think what you really mean to say is: the pollen from the anther (male part) of a flower is inserted into the stigma (female part) of another flower.

Ahh...I am not into hybridizing; but I did try pollinating by taking the pollen of a flower and inserting it into the "receptive surface" (stigma) of another flower of the same tree. It worked...one seed pod developed! Unfortunately, I was too late to secure the pod...it opened and the seeds flew off with the breeze. <sigh>

Kadie

Kadie something like that just old country boy don't know all them big words didn't have them when I was in school I'm not to into it just fun to try a few seeds ever year easer to just buy seeds. I lost hybridized 3 seed pods this year to grasshoppers. I thank I raised more grasshoppers this year than plants and the plants that should have bloomed this spring the baby deer bit tops off

roger

Roger, I'm a country girl myself. The grasshoppers don't bother my adeniums, they go after corn seedlings and pepper plants. It is wild pigs that concern me...they live in the jungle, but will come out to eat fallen papayas, yams, taro roots, and such. One of these nights they will stumble upon my adeniums and eat them. Hopefully, my dogs will alert me when these marauders come around.

Yes, it is fun growing adeniums from seeds!

Kadie

Hogs are bad lucky I have nabobs that are like me shoot all hogs they eat everything they really like my baby deer

My learnings are, some of the multi petal highbreeds are near sterile, very little or negligent pollen making it difficult to pollinate seeds, so with hybridisation I think this may be impacted... I have tried numerous times and failed with some hybrids

Speaking of heat zones...a friend passed along these links:

http://www.ahs.org/gardening-resources/gardening-maps/heat-zone-map#use

https://www.hostasdirect.com/images/contentimages/AHS%20Heat%20Map.jpg

https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Images/USZoneMap.jpg

The maps are of CONUS, Alaska, and Hawaii; no info for my region. But I finally stumbled upon Oceania AHS (including Australia).

http://www.plantsdb.gr/en/general-cultivation/hardiness-zones/277-hardiness-zones-oceania

So I changed my zone data to Oceania AHS Zone 12.

green delicious apple trees require another to tango ...

Great Kadie. I would have imagined that where you reside would be a good place to grow these Adeniums year round. Upon checking exactly where Guam was through this marvelous tool we all use Google, Safari, etc.. I became more aware of what your climate was like and finished off by your personal information given.

Nice place.

These links are useful, thanks.

Rick

You're welcome, Rick. I like to share what I find useful for me that maybe some else might like to know as well.

Yes, it's nice here except during the really hot and humid months of August and September. Even my adeniums don't like the heat during those months...they make their own shade by folding up their leaves. Next year I will erect an A-frame canopy for them just for those months.

Kadie

Shimolee, thank you for sharing your experience regards hybridizing. I'm sure it must have been frustrating to have failures of your trials. So...are your "learnings" from anecdotal evidence through your experiences only, or that also combined with scientific data?

Kadie

Great topic, Kadie! I told someone this before (Adenium flowers having both parts) and they looked at me as if I had two heads. LOL

Tracy