Crocus november 2015

[Maggi Young]

No, but he was animated to find another one, after he saw how beautiful mine looked ....

 

[David Nicholson]

Crocus laevigatus from Crocus Group seed, sown September 2011

[udo]

Crocus kotschyanus var. leucopharynx, pale form
            hadriaticus x sativus, F1 cross
                               ''              F2 cross in two forms

[Maggi Young]

That's a most unusual reddish tone in the throat  of the last one, Dirk.

[udo]

That's a most unusual reddish tone in the throat  of the last one, Dirk.

Many thanks, Maggi
The F2 hybrid from free seeds are very variable, here two pictures from last years.

[Maggi Young]

Super variation. All attractive, for sure.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Crocus gilanicus blooming today- tiny thing

[Boyed]

Just came back from Western Liguria in Italy and thought I might share some photos with you.
Crocus ligusticus was flowering on top of every mountain :

Wonderful pictures of wonderful crocus. Highly impressive. It is the most beautiful crocus ligusticus I've seen - nice bloom shape and elegant long divided stigma, which is very appealing. The white specimen, is indeed, a great find!!! Coldn't emagine there could be any whites. Conratulations, Thomas!!!

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus kotschyanus var. leucopharynx, pale form
            hadriaticus x sativus, F1 cross
                               ''              F2 cross in two forms

Mine F-2 from your cross hadriaticus x cashmirianus looks exactly as yours. This autumn bloomed the first individual and I wrote in my notes - looks close to mathewii.

[Janis Ruksans]

After very cold weak again returned warmer weather but very dark and cloudy although still extremely dry. As our house are supplied with drinking water from dwell we introduced "saving regime". Garden is watered from pool, so there are not so great problems although water level felt for more than 1.5 meters, but there still are more than 1 m of water level. No new crocus flowers came yet, so it is time to work on pictures and botanical material collected during this season.
I'm always collecting corm tunics, too - I have quite large collection of envelopes with many tunics, seed pods, cataphylls and some seeds. And it is time to order pictures. Sometimes very great discoveries can be done even in this "silent" time when you are sitting at computer. One of such happened yesterday when I ordered pictures of one European representative of biflorus group (sorry, name still kept in secret). Having four samples - two different gatherings from one region and two different from another region (distant, but not very far), I suddenly found that regardless of almost identical flowers their corm tunics are absolutely different. I even supposed that may be I mislabeled pictures. Then went to my tunic envelopes and found, yes they are different, pictures are correctly labeled. If there would be only one sample from locality (no one is collected by myself) could remain possibility that there is some mix in collection of my source of this plant, but each gathering is made by different person and that confirms that there really are two species hidden under very common name. So new crocuses comes not only from Turkey, Iran, Greece - but they are even in Europe.
You could ask - why I didn't see this at harvesting? But when you are hard working, there are no time to think about such things. Repotting of crocuses takes for me more than one month of full daylight without weekends. So I'm only checking aren't some mix, ill corms in pot and taking samples + pictures of corms without great thinking and I can't more remember how must look rings of each species, especially when you don't suppose something new in "oldies"

I must inform all my correspondents that for the 4th day no e-mails are coming - great problem in my server, so not getting reply - it means that I didn't receive your mail. Hope today it will start working again
Seems that now started to work!

[ruben]

Some newly opened crocusses:

Crocus hyemalis HVB 309-07 from Jordanië
Crocus asumaniae JP 8845
Crocus pumilus from Crete
2 forms of Crocus hadriaticus

[ruben]

Crocus biflorus ssp. melantherus
Crocus thomasii

[Maggi Young]

Some newly opened crocusses:
Crocus pumilus from Crete

 A neat little crocus.

[Cyril L]

Perhaps our cool summer followed by the very mild autumn is encouraging these aberrant flowers as I have a C. melantherus with extra petals/sepals and an extra stamen:

Maybe so - certainly a higher incidence of such seasonal mutations here this year.

Here is another interesting mutation, a bicolored Crocus banaticus with 4 outer and inner petals.  I have not noticed this aberration in C. banaticus before.  Will almost certainly not be stable.

[ArnoldT]

A very steady performer. Going to get some saffron threads from this one.

Crocus cartwrightianus albus