VERTICORDIA: IT’S POTENTIALS AND BOTTLENECKS AS A NEW CUT FLOWER CROP

Until recently most marketed Verticordia flowers were bush-harvested.
Now, few hectares of commercial, cut flower plantations are grown in Western Australia.
The expansion of this high potential cut flower is limited by several bottlenecks.
The paper describes and discusses the importance of an integrated R&D approach including: nutrition, breeding, and rootstock studies to overcome these bottlenecks.
The experiments reported here showed that V. plumosa grew best at pH of 7 and at 3 ppm phosphate in the nutrient solution.

IV International Symposium on New Floricultural Crops

J. Ben-Jaacov, A. Ackerman, D. Evenor, A. Silber

Cut flower plantation, woody plants, pH, phosphate, mineral nutrition

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2000.541.6