Muscari & relatives 2013

[pehe]

Poul, that second one looks interesting - will you post another pic when it gets a little more developed?

Here it is

Poul

[pehe]

And a few more

Muscari armenaicum 'Gül'
Muscari leucostomum

[ebbie]

Hi Ebbie,
my H dalmatica blooms a few weeks later than H. actiloba but these two are very similar.
the H. dalmatica is like a miniature dutch hybrid hyacinth with a strong stem while the Hyacinthella acutiloba  has a tread like stem similar to most hyacinthella.

there is a possibility that what i have is a hybrid !?  it originally came from Monocot Nursery

attached is a picture of it today  followed by a photos of it blooming last March (spring was early last year)

Hi Rimmer, yes, the plants are rather similar. But Hyacinthella dalmatica seems to me have clearly broader leaves. In this respect, is my plant like your Hyacinthella acutiloba.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Ebbie
you are probably correct, you have a very nice form!

Rimmer

[Janis Ruksans]

Muscari season in my greenhouse only starts.
The first was Muscari anatolicum - very beautiful form from Turkey
I'm still wondering - will be seedlings of this Muscari discolor with same shape of flowers or not? Seeds are sawn, but not blooming yet. I decided to cut this bulb this summer to increase it.
Muscari coeleste has very nice shade - stock comes from Gothenburg BG and was collected in Turkey during their first expedition there.
This Muscari pseudomuscari has somwething similar colour. It comes from Iran.
And as last - selection of mysterious Caucasian muscari made by Augis Dambrauskas in Lithuania. It is virus free stock (most of stocks of this strange species now are virus-infected)

[ashley]

Very nice Janis.  My M. anatolicum (seed from Jim Archibald) is much paler but otherwise similar .

[Janis Ruksans]

Very nice Janis.  My M. anatolicum (seed from Jim Archibald) is much paler but otherwise similar .

SASA - Stevens (Norman), Archibald (Jim), Seisums Arnis

[ashley]

M. anatolicum JJA0687950 from Sultan Dag, Konya, 1,700m

Bellevalia dubia JJA0227702 from Castel Mola, Sicily   (x2)

M. commutatum ?  from near Mistra, Peloponnese

[Gunilla]

Sunny days and freezing nights - it's a cruel spring for everyone/everything this year.

I need your help to identify a Hyacinthella I grow outside in a cold frame..

The first picture was taken almost a month ago but since then we have had frost every night and most of the days so not until today it started to open its buds.

[ashley]

Lovely plants Gunilla.  They look like Muscari azureum to me.

[Gunilla]

The seed packet was labeled Hyacinthella lineata but I agree with you Ashley, they look like Muscari azureum. Thanks.

[Janis Ruksans]

Bellevalia rixii and another picture of Muscari discolor which I named "sausage form"

[arillady]

Janis you do have some beautiful bulbs. I do like the sausage form.

[Janis Ruksans]

Some more muscari, blooming now:
The first is Muscari polyanthum, regarded as sinonim of M. armeniacum in Flora of Turkey but by my opinion it is sufficiently different both by habitat and plant dimensions. M. polyanthum has much wider leaves than M. armeniacum. This form is very early blooming and I got it from Czech collector.
Next is Muscari inconstrictum WHIR-174 - collected by me in NW Iran, near Iraq border.
Follows Muscari species LST-296 collected in NE Turkey at around 3000 m altitude by Arnis Seisums. He think that it is new species. He braught down 3 different Muscari at this mountain ridge. This one is earliest.
Muscari sp. RIGA-014 was collected in S Turkey during my first trip there (together with Arnis and our wifes).

[Rimmer de Vries]

A follow up to a thread on Hyacinthella from  a month ago, now that my season has caught up with the others.

H. heldrechii from Janis bloomed deep violet purple with a deeper coloured mid rid, and relaibely wide leaves exactly like the bulb from PC marked H. lazulina

H. lazulina ex RRW bloomed a light azure blue colour with narrow leaves. 

So it looks like the PC plants are H. heldreichii not lazulina as offered.

A photo is attached showing the RRW lazulina plant in front of the PC plant not "H. lazulina"

and a close up of H. heldreichii from JR