Identification: Plant Identification

Could someone identify attached plant for me and if possible let me know how to propagate it.

 

Oxalis species. You can probabbly divide it.

 

Oxalis for sure. The easiest way to propagate it is to divide out some of the corms, but if you hand-pollinate it with a paintbrush, you can also collect seed. Where I live, Oxalis is a weed that grows out of the sidewalks, so I'd guess that if you can get it to set seed you won't have any difficulty getting it to grow.

 

Thanks a lot for your help. I could get detailed info after identification done by you of Oxalis triangularis 'Purpurea'.

Its a lovely house plant.

U R Dabir

 

Lorax,
Are the seeds pretty easy to get going? I'd like to try using a paintbrush and see what happens.
I have 4" pot of a few purple oxalis mixed in with green. It would be nice to get a few more purple ones going.

 

Extremely easy to get going. Plant in moist soil, water occasionally. As I said, they're weeds here.

 

I also have one of these, except it's green. Can you describe hand pollination with a paintbrush for me? Do you just take a brush, and apply it first to the outer part of a blooming flower, and then to the innermost part? I don't know all the correct flower reproduction terminology here. If I do this, how will I know that it has set seed?

 

Thank you!

Do you know about how long it would take to form the seeds?

 

Polination: Take a fine (size 0 or 1) sable paintbrush, and gently stick it into the flowers. Oxalis flowers are not so big - the paintbrush should just fit in. Then transfer it to the next flower and repeat the process.

Growth: The ones here come up in about 1-2 weeks.

 

Ok, that's fast enough. I'll give it a try....

Thank you.