Fritillaria 2014

[Steve Garvie]

Does anyone know of a commercial source of seed for Frit. striata?

[Cyril L]

I have never seen seeds of F. striata offered commercially.  However the Fritillaria Group, and SRGC/AGS/NARGS seed exchange sometimes lists it.

I love F. chitralensis too, but have yet to find a source of seed so would welcome any suggestions.

Ashley, I have only seen seeds of Fritillaria chitralensis offered in the Fritillaria Group seed exchange (donated by Brian Mathew).

[Alex]

I have had F. striata from three sources: Frit group seed (sown last year so bulbs still small), Telos rare bulbs (they sell small bulbs, prob. available again this year) and a  now closed nursery called Ad Hoc plants, from where the plant in the photo came about 8 years ago. The F. chitralensis came as a bulb from Janis, so maybe he plans to offer it again soon?

Cyril, I don't have any special tips for flowering striata, but it gets a warm, dry (not completely, a little residual moisture in the plunge) Summer here in the South, and I suspect that may be the difference.

Cheers,

Alex

[colin e]

Seed of both striata and chitralenis has come from the Frit. Group and I have been lucky enough to also have been sent it unexpectedly in the post.
As to getting them to flower like all Fritillaria keep growing as long as possible and feed with a high potash fertilizer. One other thing with striata because it comes through so early here it does end up in the frost free greenhouse.  This could impact on the bud formation or stop them from aborting. Hope this is of some use.
Colin

[ashley]

Ashley, I have only seen seeds of Fritillaria chitralensis offered in the Fritillaria Group seed exchange (donated by Brian Mathew).

The F. chitralensis came as a bulb from Janis, so maybe he plans to offer it again soon?

Seed of both striata and chitralenis has come from the Frit. Group and I have been lucky enough to also have been sent it unexpectedly in the post.

Thank you all.  Time to renew my FG membership then.

[Cyril L]

Thank you Alex and Colin.  I keep all the American frits dryish under the staging in Summer but maybe it is just not warm enough.  I do feed regularly but the small bulbs seem to take ages to get to any size.

[Cyril L]

Fritillaria chitralensis flowering now, quite low but the stems will elongate soon.

[Alex]

Beautiful, Cyril.

Alex

[Yann]

Fritillaria bucharica starting to bloom

[Yann]

Fritillaria raddeana

i don't know what's happen this year but the plant is in bloom and the floral stem doesn't elongate.
Several flowers are already withered. May be it's due to the hot temperatures in the greenhouse?

[art600]

Two Frits from Iran

1.  Fritillaria assyriaca?

2.  Fritillaria spec. nova

[Yann]

Arthur the first shot doesn't look like assyriaca

[Gerry Webster]

Arthur the first shot doesn't look like assyriaca

Insofar as I can judge  from a photo, it looks like F. elwesii, albeit a very small one. Does it get taller
Arthur?

[art600]

Gerry

As far as I know Frit elwesii does not grow in Iran.

The Frit does get taller - about 3 inches.

[Gerry Webster]

Arthur - I think we've had this exchange before. I don't believe that plants take any notice of geopolitical boundaries.

I attach a scan of the relevant bit of Flora of Turkey (Martin Rix) - sorry about the quality.  The style seems important in identifying the species &  unfortunately this is not too clear in your photo.

Edit - I've re-done this post with slightly better scans - this website refuses to accept 210kb!