Fritillaria 2013

[art600]

Tony

Nicely grown Frits from the Tendurek Pass.

Following is an image from my trip in 2011 - even more like michailovskyi

[Maggi Young]

A  discussion on climate change was opening up here in this Frit. thread which I felt deserved its own place - see it here :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10290.0

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Art & Tony.

Now we know they hybridize things get even more confusing 

Personally now I'm convinced I grow only three kinds, brown ones, green ones and ones that aren't green or brown. Job done!

[David Nicholson]

Personally now I'm convinced I grow only three kinds, brown ones, green ones and ones that aren't green or brown. Job done!

      I'm all for simplification!

[annew]

Don't forget the brown and green ones. 

[Mark Griffiths]

Don't forget the brown and green ones. 

splitter!!

[annew]

 

[Mark Griffiths]

Here's hopefully F.hermonis. First time flowering.

[Janis Ruksans]

Fritillaria alburyana usually has ligt pink flowers, but in one locality our team (LST-247) found very unusually colored "alburyana" - with purple flowers. It was discovered by some otherfritillaria growers, too and I even somewhere read that it is natural hybrid with F. armena, growing in vicinity. BUT its seedlings perfectly reproduce itself and now splitting were noted as it could be in case of hybrids. Grown side by side with traditional pink alburyana they both can freely hybridise, but nor in seedlings of typical alburyana nor in seedlings in this purple one I didn't note any intermediate - all stocks keeps their color. The purple one is something smaller than pink one, too. May be worth of own status?

[ashley]

Wonderful alburyana Janis

Here F. grandiflora ex PF-3520 F. kotschyana

[Gerry Webster]

Here F. grandiflora ex PF-3520

Very handsome Ashley. It looks indistinguishable from F. kotschyana,  but then some people think that the two are the same thing.

[annew]

A nice brown and green one! Pretty markings.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Fritillaria alburyana usually has ligt pink flowers, but in one locality our team (LST-247) found very unusually colored "alburyana" - with purple flowers. It was discovered by some otherfritillaria growers, too and I even somewhere read that it is natural hybrid with F. armena, growing in vicinity. BUT its seedlings perfectly reproduce itself and now splitting were noted as it could be in case of hybrids. Grown side by side with traditional pink alburyana they both can freely hybridise, but nor in seedlings of typical alburyana nor in seedlings in this purple one I didn't note any intermediate - all stocks keeps their color. The purple one is something smaller than pink one, too. May be worth of own status?

Stunning Janis 

[krisderaeymaeker]

A few that flower for the moment ...
1- F. minuta
2- F. crassifolia
3 & 4 - F. pinardii
5-  Another form of crassifolia

[Gerry Webster]

Kris - the first one looks like F. amana (or, if you prefer, F. hermonis amana).