Galanthus in March 2014

[astragalus]

Gerard, what wonderful pictures of the galanthus in the woods.  I've never seen it like that.

[WimB]

prachtig Wim! Damn this is a must have

Dank je, Yann! Even though it's a very good multiplier, it's not growing quick enough to supply the demand (unless through chipping).

[Gerard Oud]

[quote auth ;Dor=johnw link=topic=11488.msg297014#msg297014 date=1393783318]
Gerard  - I thought that was a pic of you at a sales table. 

johnw
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I never look that serious behind a table This time i got 2 wet knees

[Oakwood]

Seeing this spring in a garden my last-year Armenian snowdrop collections, I can tell now again about snowdrop vernation and its some unstable nature within one species, even within one localized population: for example, G. lagodechianus species within Armenia (both northern and southern loci), which classically possess applanate vernation, but in broad-leaved plants it is still supervolute!! - see an image. It's just such broad-leafed clone of this species with clear supervolute vernation flowering this year at me (I suppose for these broad-leafed clones it should be genetically determined, other words, the same broad-leafed plants couldn't have one year applanate and other year supervolute vernation). Hence, there is 70-year-old taxonomic confusion history both for G. lagodechianus and G. transcaucasicus in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. So, now I can note in Armenia G. lagodechianus and G. alpinus are ONLY distributed, but in Azerbaijan and Iran G. lagodechianus, G. alpinus and G. transcaucasicus occur.

[Melvyn Jope]

Very interested in your observations Dimitri, some of us have been looking at the populations of G.graecus in the Vermion area of Northern Greece to see the leaves at vernation and believe that both applanate and supervolute are present in the same population. I wonder if there is a factor to do with the maturity of the plant as they all seem applanate as seedlings and then some become supervolute at flowering size.

[Oakwood]

Very interested in your observations Dimitri, some of us have been looking at the populations of G.graecus in the Vermion area of Northern Greece to see the leaves at vernation and believe that both applanate and supervolute are present in the same population. I wonder if there is a factor to do with the maturity of the plant as they all seem applanate as seedlings and then some become supervolute at flowering size.

Exactly, Melvyn, here below our field observations from a known paper, 2013, p. 214, on a different types of vernation in a same population of G. elwesii sensu lato (cfr. G. graecus) in Greece and Ukraine. Such two type vernations have been observed not only in juvenile, but at fully generative individuals (vegetative clones). All Turkish G. elwesii sensu stricto plants have only supervolute vernation.

[mark smyth]

Todays photography task 

The second photo is large at 1000 pixels wide

[Margaret]

Lovely seeing the varieties together. Are there 26 or 27? Couldn't see Diggory - one of the few I can recognise.

[mark smyth]

Possibly 29. Diggory is over for another year

[mark smyth]

Maybe I'll retake the photo tomorrow and set them out so all inners can be seen and have the tallest at the back

[RichardW]

Really nice way of displaying them, is that custom made?

[mark smyth]

I bought it in Habitat

[RichardW]

Ta, might have to pinch that idea 

[de.da.]

Hello!
I have not much Galanthus.
My last year in england ordered`Blonde Inge`is flowering now.
I am happy that is it yellow in the first year.
Kind regards- Daniel

[mark smyth]

Can anyone tell me how to tell the difference between Fieldgate Forte and Fieldgate Fortissimo?