Galanthus gracilis variance?

[Otto Fauser]

Paul , just came across your questions on G. gracilis today. I too only grow 2 forms of this
species , the one with the narrow ,twisted leaves [not yet in flower here] which I have been growing for at least 40 years, and another with broader leaves which was collected by
Erich Pasche in1995 ,of which he sent me seeds under No.HKEP9510.
 Though it is raining at the moment , I took a photo of it to send along. You can see the
vernation of the leaves = it is G. gracilis.
 Where did your broadleaved form come from?

[annew]

I've recently exchanged bulbs with a friend. She gave me her narrow twisted form, and I gave her one of the illustrated ones which are like yours, Paul. They only get to about 10cm tall though. Mine came from seeds collected by Vaclav Beburda in 1999, through a seed exchange.

[Paul T]

Otto,

It looks like yours has more elongated petals than mine (although that could of course be an age of flower relationship, mine have only just opened), and the leaved look a bit different too as far as I can tell.  Good stuff!!    Mine came from a friend a couple of hours north of here.  I will contact them soon and try to find out where theirs originated from.

Anne,

Yours look much more like mine, although the lower marking on mine is much stronger (and less distance between the upper and lower marks as well).  Fascinating to see all this variation on what up until now I had only ever seen in one form. 

Thanks to everyone for your responses.