Fritillaria 2013

[Tony Willis]

This group are. There is an excellent article on them here

http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51010855.pdf

with pictures of each species in the wild.

[Mark Griffiths]

thanks Tony, actually I got a number of blank pages with a few pictures.

Adobe informs me "This PDF may not be being displayed correctly" which is a somewhat redundant message!

[art600]

nice, are they all light coloured? (this coming from someone with a bunch of brown, brown and green, greeny brown, browny green and green ones)

Mark

You must have hermonis amana

[Tony Willis]

thanks Tony, actually I got a number of blank pages with a few pictures.

Adobe informs me "This PDF may not be being displayed correctly" which is a somewhat redundant message!

Mark sorry about that but I tried it before I inserted the link and it opened okay so I cannot understand the problem. Computers!!

[Mark Griffiths]

Mark

You must have hermonis amana

I have several. Actually I might as well just swap around the labels myself, I'm more likely to get accurate labelling than what I got from nurseries and various seed exchanges (grumble)

[Mark Griffiths]

Mark sorry about that but I tried it before I inserted the link and it opened okay so I cannot understand the problem. Computers!!

It's ok. It's an old machine and it likes to take an "individual" approach to many simple computing tasks. I regard it as having "character"

[Gerry Webster]

It's ok. It's an old machine and it likes to take an "individual" approach to many simple computing tasks. I regard it as having "character"

My computer is also old and I am told the browser (Safari 4.1.3) is obsolete. Nevertheless Tony's link loaded  perfectly - albeit very slowly.

[Alex]

Hi Ron (and others!),

I was going to post something about this and then saw yours above. My american Frits in particular are really late this year, with F. striata only flowering now (and the flowers are a little smaller than usual, too) and F. pluriflora still in a state of suspended animation where the shoots poked through in January as usual, then stalled, while all the time seeming firm and healthy. Buds still seem viable,too. I have blamed the cold weather. Is this your experience this year, too?

Alex

P.S. The seeds you sent me (Calochortus and choice Frit) are up, looks like almost full germination 

[Mark Griffiths]

Quite so. 

And I wonder how she would feel if she saw F.meleagris on Iffley meadow.

[Roma]

Fritillaria pudica
I have had this a long time.  I only realised this year there are two clones in the pot.  It set seed for the first time two years ago and I have a nice pot of seedlings coming along as well as 2 pots of 'rice'

[Mark Griffiths]

It's one I've never succeeded with - I have got rice bulbs and seeds and still have them but never a flower. They may be too shaded.

[Alex]

Here are a few Frits today - a very late striata and poluninii; the latter is one of a batch of seedlings (Archibald) that are about 6 years old now, about half are white like this and the rest have the nice purple veining seen on a photo of this sp. earlier in the thread.

Alex

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Alex

[Roma]

Superb Roma, 

Congratulations on getting seed also. Its not always easy to do.

Thanks, Ron

[Oron Peri]

Fritillaria rhodia seedlings in flower today.