bulbous Corydalis

[David Nicholson]

Fred, I've said it before and I'll say it again, you take a wonderful photograph.

[tonyg]

Fred, you must have been asked before but can you tell us what camera/lens you use.  These pics are really some of the best on the forum ... and much better than mine!

[BULBISSIME]

Hristo, Macro like this ?? 



To get macro picture, you have to take special macro lense with reflex camera or use the macro function on compact ones.
In fact, you need the 2 types of camera as the depth of field is completly different between them and the angle is also very different.

[David Nicholson]

If only I could get pictures like that with my compact's super macro function I would be a happy chappy.

[ranunculus]

Fred, you must have been asked before but can you tell us what camera/lens you use.  These pics are really (some of) THE best on the forum ...

I have amended your quote, Tony ... hope you don't object!   

[Lesley Cox]

I'll leave the pictures to the real experts and stick with my little point and shoot but the white with blue lines makes the extra functions well worth while. What a beautiful flower.

[Hristo]

Now did that flower tell Mr D'Milne it was ready for its close up? I think I will have to see about selling off a kidney so I can buy a SLR digital with slaved flash etc etc. The macro function on my Fuji S5600 simply can't get that close to object, still it was only 100 euros!
Love these pics Fred, sets a challenge for the rest of us and raises the photographic game within the form!

[Hristo]

Uber excitement here, a look through the remodelled bed that used to hold the Leonticoides section corydalis revealed both new germinations and plants in their 2nd year. I would guess there is a very good chance they are either x popovii or x maracandica. They have received no protection and have been through a spring of successive snow melts, the bed is however very free draining.

[Hristo]

In the open garden - Corydalis tauricola.

[tonyg]

Chris, did your C tauricola come from Bob & Rannveig Wallis like mine?  I wonder if it would survive in the open garden here?  Is summer wet likely to be a problem?

[Hristo]

That is a possible source, but in all honesty this is info lost in the mists of time, I do know it is one of my earlier aquisitions as I have quite a few 'bulbs'. This is certailny proving to be quite happy outside here, in the UK I did grow it under cover, but if you have a few I would give it a shot in the open garden.

[Hristo]

Tony, just been reading the monograph on corydalis by Liden and Zetterlund, they do talk about the need for a drier summer rest than the western woodlanders provided perhaps by lifting the bulbs bafter growth has ceased or growing in pots. I would wonder about the possibility of growing tauricola in the UK on a well drained slope perhaps overgrown by some amenable deciduous shrub? Like I said worth a try if you have a spare.

[tonyg]

I have a mystery corydalis for you.  A gift from Franz H a few years back it remains unidentified.  No increase, no seed.  Large corky tuber, gets a long dry summer rest.

[BULBISSIME]

Looks really nice this species Tony !
I hope someone will find a name for it 

[Hristo]

Hi Tony,
Section Leonticoides;
Based on a rather unhelpful line drawing and that the leaves look Rue like a likely candidate is C.rutifolia or C.rutifolia ssp erdelii. Do your flowers turn pinkish with age? This species is also self incompatible, 2n = 16 same as chionophila and oppositifolia, all are in section and series Leonticoides. If you have anything in series petiolatae they are also 2n = 16. darwasica is 2n = 16 also.