micronutrients from MS culture medium supplemented with 2 sucrose, 0.4 mg/l thiamine and 0.1 g/l myoinositol, followed by the same culture medium supple mented with 0.45 mol thidiazuron(TDZ) and 0.2 Gelrite, to micropropagate D. 'Second Love' (Nobile group). These authors observed a positive correlation be tween the number of shoots/explant(1.06-6.24) and shoot dry matter(0.042-0.152 g) when the concentration of TDZ in culture medium was increased from 0 to 1.8 umol. Kabir et al. (2013) found that TM medium(Sigma Phytamax Chemical Co., USA) was the most favorable for germina- tion of D fimbriatum seeds, with 100 germination and the shortest germination period(45.5 days) compared to MS(93 49 days) or VW(86 49 days) media