Crocus in Australia / New Zealand -June- July 2016

[Maggi Young]

Pictures posted to the Crocus Group on Facebook by Mat Murray in New South Wales, AU.
Crocus sieberi ssp atticus pushing through the snow  - 25th June


Today Mat wrote : "This frosty morning Crocus sieberi 'Bowles White' was awaiting the winter sun to open it up"







Crocus sieberi 'Bowles White'

[Lesley Cox]

Goodness Matt, we're cold down here but no snow yet. I guess these are at Mt Tomah? So your extra altitude would account for the snow. I have lots of crocuses on the verge so I hope you won't mind that I've changed the name of the topic a little bit. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Combining the two strains, here is Crocus rujanensis grown in Australia from seed from NZ!
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Well done Fermi. Mine are still wanting a decent day's sun. It's so hard at this time of year to say whether one's crocuses are winter or spring flowering. C. baytopiorum is poised but doesn't open properly unless we have a couple of good warm days. C. biflorus forms are waiting impatiently and C.sieberi 'Bowles' White' is out today but just one bloom so far. Lots more to come. C. minimus albus is out.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Lesley,
we did have some sun early on today, but I didn't get out to this Crocus till the afternoon, so I don't know if it had been open.
It was raised from seed as Crocus olivieri ssp olivieri - you can see it open on last year's thread http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13343.0
cheers
fermi

[t00lie]

A few in various stages of bud here as well just needing some warmth ....

Compared to last season this one is a month ahead  .......Taken in the rain late this afternoon.

[fermi de Sousa]

Found peering out of the California poppy seedlings this afternoon, Crocus imperati (?ssp imperati?)
cheers
fermi

[Otto Fauser]

one week of constant rain and lack of sunshine has prevented me to take any photos of Crocus opening to the sun . So only closed up flowers from today ,plus one clump taken in late April of the tiny Crocus pumilus col. in Crete .

[Janis Ruksans]

one week of constant rain and lack of sunshine has prevented me to take any photos of Crocus opening to the sun . So only closed up flowers from today ,plus one clump taken in late April of the tiny Crocus pumilus col. in Crete .

Crocus from Rhodos is named as C. rhodensis and is well separable from C. biflorus growing only in Italy - both morphologically and by DNA.
Janis

[Otto Fauser]

Crocus from Rhodos is named as C. rhodensis and is well separable from C. biflorus growing only in Italy - both morphologically and by DNA.
Janis

Many thanks Janis . Yes I did wonder as it looked different to the ordinary  biflorus .

[fermi de Sousa]

A couple of "seconds":
1) a second corm in the pot of seed grown Crocus rujanensis; this looks like the one that flowered last year and is a bit different to the earlier one;
2) Crocus olivieri ssp olivieri opened up in the winter sunshine,
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

Here's Crocus imperati, grown from seed sown April 2014.

[fermi de Sousa]

I got this Crocus as 'Sunkist' but apparently it's Crocus flavus
cheers
ffermi