> > I have googled over & over & can't find the name for seeds that can not be stored & self germinate like crinums & belladonna ect > > Can someone please let me know what that is called Highly recalcitrant See: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/101/… From Avicennia to Zizania: Seed Recalcitrance in Perspective Abstract Background Considered only in terms of tolerance of, or sensitivity to, desiccation (which is an oversimplification), orthodox seeds are those which tolerate dehydration and are storable in this condition, while highly recalcitrant seeds are damaged by loss of only a small proportion of water and are unstorable for practical purposes. Between these extremes, however, there may be a gradation of the responses to dehydration and also to other factors suggesting perhaps that seed behaviour might be best considered as constituting a continuum subtended by extreme orthodoxy and the highest degree of recalcitrance.