Galanthus - March 2015

[de.da.]

Hi Hagen and Maggi.
Is it possible to assign it to a known type (Sorte)?
Daniel

[Alan_b]

Hi Alan_b, here is the second green leaved Gn with green tips! Called LICHTES GRÜN

Oh wow, Hagen, the markings are completely different to those of 'Green Light' making it 100% distinctive.  And (if I am translating correctly)  you have named it in honour of 'Green Light', which is very kind.  Here is a recent picture of 'Green Light' so readers of the forum can make a comparison.

[Alan_b]

...Daniel is asking about the flower in his first picture.....

You should always show the leaves if you want an identification but my guess is that it is a form of Galanthus elwesii.

[Thomas Huber]

I agree with Brian.  Is it a named cultivar?

No Alan - not a named cultivar, just a plant from a very variable population.

Hello Thomas what a cracker you have something special with that superb green tip better watch you do not catch the snowdrop madness maybe already have this, cheers Ian the Christie kind

Snowdrop madness - me - never !!! They are simply white flowers with green tipps 

[Roma]

Last Snowdrops flowering here
Galanthus platyphyllus
A Galanthus plicatus 'Warham' seedling with very broad leaves

[de.da.]

Hello Alan,
Unfortunately, the leaves were destroyed (of a bird?).
Daniel

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Alan,
I like galanthus with shiny green leaves. LICHTES GRÜN, yes in honour to GREEN LIGHT, is my only one with green lines on the outers.
I hope you can agree with my little word fun?!

[Alan_b]

Hi Alan,
I like galanthus with shiny green leaves. LICHTES GRÜN, yes in honour to GREEN LIGHT, is my only one with green lines on the outers.
I hope you can agree with my little word fun?!

"LICHTES GRÜN" is fine by me, Hagen.  I had a look through the ICNCP rules (their 2009 publication) and, although I suspect they might not be too enthusiastic, there is no prohibition that I can see on two different names which would mean the same in translation.  Better try and publish it quickly to be on the safe side.     

[Maggi Young]

From where I'm sitting, LICHTES GRÜN would translate as Light Green - which is quite different to Green Light.

If you go into a shop and ask for light green paint ....... then you go into another shop to ask for a green light - two entirely different things........
 

[johnw]

The dreaded committee may not make such fine distinctions as in Lichtes Grün vs Grünes Licht.  They disallowed the local Rhododendron 'Grand Pré' as they felt it would be confused with an azalea called 'Grand Prix'.  Maddening.

[Matt T]

And yet we end up with two Primula allionii named 'Jenny'??

[ashley]

Last Snowdrops flowering here
Galanthus platyphyllus
A Galanthus plicatus 'Warham' seedling with very broad leaves

Very nice G. platyphyllus Roma.  I 'm glad to have a batch coming along from wild-collected seed.
G. cilicicus looks as though it will produce a few seeds this year too, whereas my previous efforts with a paintbrush had never been successful.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Alan, Maggi, JohnW - I agree with you.
In German LICHTES GRÜN means a pale kind of green, but not a green light.

[Natalia]

Yesterday blossomed out first snowdrop -  Galanthus plicatus

[johnstephen29]

Loverly snowdrops roma & natalie, where do you grow your Cilicicus Ashley? Inside or out? I have to grown mine in the greenhouse or it would not survive.