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Title: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 21, 2024, 08:46:43 AM

This winter has been a bit colder than usual but the snowdrops seem to have appreciated it.
Here are some of the Galanthus elwesii types in the garden with one single green blotch,
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 21, 2024, 08:55:08 AM

We have some Galanthus elwesii under deciduous trees where they have started to self-seed with some seedlings with single green blotches and some split in two,
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 21, 2024, 08:58:27 AM

This colony of Galanthus elwesii have both single and split green blotches.
It self seeded from higher up in the rock garden and survives in full sun without any overhead shade
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 22, 2024, 02:12:54 PM

This is a different snowdrops with leaves wrapped around each other - is it Galanthus plicatus?
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: Jeffnz on July 22, 2024, 09:34:13 PM

Hi Fermi
Are the bleaves pleated?

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: ashley on July 22, 2024, 09:37:15 PM

Not plicatus Fermi, which should have leaf-margins folded back (plicate).
This one looks like an elwesii to me.

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: Jeffnz on July 23, 2024, 01:19:11 AM

Pleated: the leaf surface is folded longitudinally in pleats (plicate). Roughened ridges: the leaf surface is irregularly raised into roughened ridges. Grooved/furrowed/chanelled: the leaf surface has obvious grooves or channels, usually running longitudinally (sulcate).

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 28, 2024, 01:34:23 AM

Thanks, Ashley and Jeff,
I've found the G.plicatus elsewhere!
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 28, 2024, 01:37:47 AM

I think this is Galanthus 'Ophelia'.
It's doing better this year - I think I got it more than 10 years ago from Marcus Harvey.
It struggled for many years and about 4 years ago I noticed a bud but it didn't mature, and each year since then it has increased in size and flowers,
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 29, 2024, 10:54:20 AM

I think this tiny thing is Galanthus rizehensis
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: Jeffnz on July 29, 2024, 10:56:22 PM

A little cutie, where did you obtain it?

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 30, 2024, 10:37:01 AM

I'm pretty sure it would have been from someone in our local AGS Vic Group - most likely Otto Fauser!
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 09, 2024, 04:44:25 PM

Quote from: fermi de Sousa on July 28, 2024, 01:37:47 AM

I think this is Galanthus 'Ophelia'.

A subsequent flower shows the green tips I think it should have,
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 11, 2024, 04:50:10 AM

Oops! I have a feeling that what I previously posted as Galanthus rizehensis might actually be G. woronowii and this is actually G. rizehensis!
Can a more experienced Galanthophile confirm or contradict this?
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 11, 2024, 02:27:53 PM

This snowdrop is possibly Galanthus 'S. Arnott' which I did have in this bed along with 'Magnet',
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fermi

Title: Re: Galanthus in the Southern Hemisphere July 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 11, 2024, 02:30:01 PM

This appears to be a Galanthus plicatus hybrid with pleated foliage,
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fermi