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Some months ago Dörte Harpke and her team made a new classification for the series verni.Among many interesting news a new species from Italy (Liguria, Tuscany and Emilia-Romana)is described. In the last years I was able to visit the original locations and fell in love with thiswonderful species. It's much more variable than the other plants from the series verni and, most important, it is hardy in my garden It also differs from the 'standard' vernus by having different chromosome number 2n=16(instead of 2n=8 in neapolitanus, siculus and vernus/ex albiflorus,Mathew).
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Some photos from the wild.More photos from my 2010 trip are available here:http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5314.0