Erythronium 2014

[Jane]

Jane

Super plant - does it always have this number of flowers?

Hi Arthur

She gets better every year.  I would like to split her but don't have the heart to do it!

[mark smyth]

Today while weeding I discovered two seedling Erythroniums flowering for the first time - E. revolutum and something self sown from either Kinfauns Pink or Harvington Snowgoose

[fixpix]

Wrong planting???
My E. dens-canis could be in the wrong spot? It's quite in shade (coming from neighbor's house not trees) and close to a fountain (water). They don't seem to thrive, not multiply, and I've noticed some strange yellow spots on the leaves. Like rust.
Should I move them?
In summer... it gets really hot and dry...

[mark smyth]

Here is one of my seedlings. Its growing beside Kinfauns Pink

[Tim Ingram]

Interesting delicate pink stripe on the petals Mark. Going back to the E.B. Anderson seedlings I think this must be 'Margaret Mathew' - I just had it under a number from Kath Dryden and have lost the original label. It has taken quite a few years to reach this size. Most named forms are always going to be quite rare, but plants like 'Pagoda' are superb garden plants and popular at our local market, so must work on this!

[mark smyth]

Here is one of my seedlings. Its growing beside Kinfauns Pink

I stupidly planted Kinfauns Pink and Harvington Snowgoose almost side by side. I think I bought them in 2010 because my first photos for both were in 2011. They are now too close and multiplying fast. When can I lift them? Will they have gone deep?

[ChrisB]

I think this is E. revolutum.  Given to me long ago as a seedling.

[mark smyth]

A few Snowgooses/geese

[mark smyth]

Now that the seedling in the front garden has matured does anyone want to comment on the species or possibility of it being a hybrid involving E. revolutum? Were it is growing I had scattered seeds collected from E. revolutum.

[Maggi Young]

E. hendersonii , Mark. 

[mark smyth]

Thanks. Maybe I sneaked some seeds from something else - blush    It will have to be moved because its being swamped by Narcissus and Galanthus leaves and emerging geranium leaves

[Maggi Young]

No hurry to move it, Mark - in a few weeks the erythronium will have died back anyway so the overgrowing things won't bother it much.

[Jane]

Here are a few Erythroniums looking good at the moment, 'Janice' and umbilicatum 

[Ed Alverson]

The strange case of Erythronium #98 (seed collected along California highway 299, about 30 miles from the coast)
What happened to the pink markings?  Can anybody identify this species?  The flowers are much more yellow than my E. californicum, and the leaves are more narrow.

Gene, the key feature to look at in detail, I think, is the anther filaments. Compare the filaments on these plants to the filaments on E. californicum (cylindrical) and E. revolutum (distinctly flattened). If these plants have any genetic influence from E. revolutum they will have somewhat flattened filaments, since those of E. californicum are terete. While hybrids typically combine the morphological influences of each parent, they are not necessarily always intermediate in every character. If this is some sort of hybrid between E. californicum, and E. revolutum, the expression of the "pink" genes might be influenced by exposure, etc. As I recall there is quite a bit of variability in flower color in E. elegans, for example, which may be an analogous situation of sorts.

Ed

[Oakwood]

My dog's teeth plants blooming now in SE Ukraine (already more likely in Russia)

Erythronium krylovii sp.n. from the Altai forests
E. dens-canis from the easternmost Ukrainian locus of area