Muscari & relatives 2013

[ashley]

I like it too Shelagh; it's almost a kingfisher blue.
Unfortunately this plant doesn't bulk up, with me anyway, so I'll need to sow more seed to have enough for the garden.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Grown from AGS seed ex seed labeled as Muscari bourgaei
(AGS 2010 #4129)
3-4 inches tall,
can anyone confirm its identity?

Thank Rimmer

[Janis Ruksans]

Bellevalia crassa and B. forniculata colour forms.

[ebbie]

Two similar looking muscaris:

-Muscari mirum
-Muscari massayanum

[Janis Ruksans]

There are two forms of Muscari massayanum. By late Jim Archibald true massayanum comes from Čiftehan (first two pictuires). Another form was collected by our team during BATM and LST trips (next two pictures). On last picture very pretty white Muscari of Leopoldia group collected by me somewhere in Iran (WHIR) but its number was lost and so I don't know from where just it comes.

[ashley]

Nice to see Janis
I have young plants of an Archibald collection so look forward to seeing them flower in a year or two. 
With such a constricted mouth I wonder what the pollinator is?

[Janis Ruksans]

Nice to see Janis
I have young plants of an Archibald collection so look forward to seeing them flower in a year or two. 
With such a constricted mouth I wonder what the pollinator is?

I saw bees and bumblebees on them, but I use tooth stick, slightly unsharpened and moistured by saliva.

[Oron Peri]

Janis

Your unidentified muscari in my opinion is an albino form of Leopoldia comosa [syn M. comosum] unless it has different leaves...?

[Oron Peri]

Here is a field of Bellevalia forniculata of which i took a photo two days ago in the Paladonken mountains not far from Erzurum.

[ashley]

Well that puts my efforts in context      Thanks Oron; a wonderful sight

Thanks too Janis for your comments on M. massayanum pollination.

[Janis Ruksans]

 

Here is a field of Bellevalia forniculata of which i took a photo two days ago in the Paladonken mountains not far from Erzurum.

Phantastic view! I was there 3 times and never at so good blooming - allways a little late, after culmination of blooming.

[mark smyth]

Can someone identify these for me
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10531.0

[bulborum]

Leopoldia comosa White Wave collected in Corsica

Roland

[Rimmer de Vries]

Muscari dionysiacum 

large plants are old mature bulbs from Dix Export, the clump of smaller plants is first year blooming seedlings from the parent plants.

these have the leaf tip caps.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Muscari commosum from seed ex seed

these are  smaller plants than Muscari dionysiacum and seem less showy and do not have the leaf tip caps

Rimmer