Erythronium 2013

[Janis Ruksans]

Garden still covered by deep snow. Even in greenhouse only earliest erythroniums are flowering:
Erythronium caucasicum from Georgia in Caucasus
and
surprisingly early cultivar of Erythronium sibiricum selected by Arnis Seisums (?) and named EARLY WONDER because it allways bloom the first and together with earliest erythroniums. Usual forms of sibiricum is much later blooming and some even very late.

[Gene Mirro]

Coldest part of winter, basement temps are 36-40 range.

That's the normal temp range for cold stratification.  I don't have the evidence, but I'll bet the Pacific coast Erythroniums like revolutum and hendersonii will germinate with warmer winter temps like maybe 50-55F.  The Oregon coast doesn't get much colder than that on average.

[Guff]

Happy to see that my Purpurascens, Hendersonii and Oregonum plants are above ground. The Oregonum looks like it will clump up fast, had two flowering scapes last spring. Last year Purpurascens and Hendersonii started to flower March 23.

1-Purpurascens
2-Hendersonii
3-Oregonum

[Guff]

This Revolutum flowered last year, must have forgotten to post it in the 2012 Erythronium thread. Has six stamens and alot darker pink.

1-Revolutum

[Gene Mirro]

A group of mixed species and hybrids:



After you've grown Erythroniums from seed for a while, you will need a place like this for mystery plants.

Some of them have very dark mottling on the leaves:



Does anyone know if this is a named hybrid?  I looked up White Beauty, and it does not have mottling this dark.

[Larry Neel]

Hi Gene

Here's a picture of wild E. californicum taken last year in Trinity County CA. Only one leaf is visible and out of focus but they were very mottled.

I went back and collected seeds and sent some to the SRGC exchange. Did you order any?

Larry Neel

[Gene Mirro]

Larry, I have several groups of E. californicum with mottled leaves, but this particular plant has much darker mottling and much bigger leaves.  Someone once told me that they thought it was a form of californicum, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hybrid.  It's a very strong grower, and makes bulb offsets.

[Janis Ruksans]

Some erythroniums from my collection grown in greenhouse
Erythronium grandiflorum - American
Erythronium caucasicum from Georgia
Erythronium dens-canis from Lipcha in Eastern Carpathians
and a pair of Erythronium sibiricum
from Marble pass in E Kazahstan (12KZ-098)
and subsp. sulevii with black anthers

[Guff]

Gene, for some reason your pictures don't go to full size when clicked? One has to save the file then open them.

[Guff]

Anyone ever find out if Japonicum and Dens Canis cross? Think I'm going to have around 13 Dens Canis and 3 Japonicum flowers this year.

[Janis Ruksans]

Anyone ever find out if Japonicum and Dens Canis cross? Think I'm going to have around 13 Dens Canis and 3 Japonicum flowers this year.

Many years ago I tried, but didn't succeed.

[Janis Ruksans]

Erythronium sibiricum from Tomsk in Siberia. Sometimes in greenhouse flowers open at soil level and look upright.

[Gene Mirro]

Gene, for some reason your pictures don't go to full size when clicked? One has to save the file then open them.

They work OK for me.  Maybe Maggi can tell me if I've done something wrong when I attached them.

[Maggi Young]

They work OK for me.  Maybe Maggi can tell me if I've done something wrong when I attached them.

Tried them on the machines we have here, on different browsers too..... seems to be okay so not sure what is happening for Guff.
Once in a while I have experienced a temporary problem  of the photos "wanting" to be opened in a new window or be saved or just not opening at all for five minutes. . I find these are all temporary blips.

 Sometimes there is just not a good answer to these glitsches 

[Gene Mirro]

Can anyone ID these for me?  I found them about 50 miles east of Arcata, CA near Burnt Ranch.  Note the strong pink coloration.





The foliage looks like E. californicum.