.....une petite fleur : Acis fabrei

[Gerdk]

This is what was raised from SRGC seed 2016 - sown 22.01.2016 - first flowers
- and apparently not Acis fabrei

Gerd

[Hans J]

“there was the wish the father of the thought”
here comes the true Acis fabei ( pictures from habitat )

[Karaba]

This is what was raised from SRGC seed 2016 - sown 22.01.2016 - first flowers
- and apparently not Acis fabrei

Gerd

I have the same problem with seeds from SRGC seedex 2017. Also first flowers this year and the first stem has 4 flowers which seems too much for fabrei (it's a lot even for nicaeensis). Style seems not to fit also but i didn't count the ribs on the tepal (data from a paper on the two species). I thought that it was seeds from Hans but apparently no and misidentified.

[Hans J]

Sorry Yvain ...

But I would never go to the location and collecting seeds for a seed exchange
The other point is it is very different when is flowering time and when the seeds ripe ...there is big variation of few weeks
Every year is different !
I have in meantime visit my location 7 times !!!
Sometimes I was too early ...sometimes I was too late ( and later in year there is no chance when the leaves are dry )
P.E. in this year I found only two open flowers ...all others was still in buds
The people from which we hire a small house told us the March was unusual warm ...but the April was very cold

Hans

[Yann]

few weeks ago i revisited an other area where i also found few Acis, no fire in this part. There're now 11 areas known to host this species, 4 new zones where found this spring. Good news!