Fritillaria 2016

[olegKon]

1. Fritillaria olivieri
2. Fritillaria reuteri

[johnw]

No question who we are.......

[olegKon]

the last this season - Fritillaria involucrata

[Tony Willis]

Fritillaria macedonica 

[Yann]

Oleg all your Frits are grown without any protection during the winter?

[ashley]

Fritillaria Macedonia

Very nice Tony; what species do you think it is?      (... and will you be showing more of the primula? )

I was also fascinated by your Crocus thread (here) with such variability in scardicus and cvijicii as well as habitat photos.
Obviously you had a good trip.

[Tony Willis]

Ashley my apologies the auto correct changed my spelling and I had not noticed. I do not know how to turn it off. You will note I have managed to change it. That is now the species name that is shown.

[ashley]

Thanks Tony.  Yes 'autocorrect' (& predictive text) can be a pain as default settings.

[olegKon]

Oleg all your Frits are grown without any protection during the winter?

No protection at all in winter, Yann, just snow coverage. All of them are in the open garden since no potted plants will survive frost in an alpine house, I recon.  But I can't grow Japanese and Californian species (too cold for them). And I have to take care of some fritillaries in summer as sometimes summers are too wet for them here.

[Maggi Young]

Latest news from Fritillaria Icones site :
The Fritillaria Icones project now has updated Fritillaria seed images, now 91 taxa included in the PDF :
 http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/seeds.html


Chemotaxonomic paper Chinese Fritillaria  -
Identification of Fritillariae bulbus from adulterants using ITS2 regions
 -  abstract   http://www.fritillariaicones.com/info/news/news_2016/Xiang_et_al_2016.html

[sokol]

A 1 foot tall brick red fritillary grown from SRGC SX 2008 #1161 seed offered as F. messanensis.

is this identified correctly?

It looks like Frit. messanensis from Southern Croatia and Montenegro. The Greek plants don't Show this uniform colour.