Identifying Crocus

[Diane Clement]

Help with ... Crocus goteborgenis ... is it some trendy new species?

Trendy maybe, but it's a hybrid not a species.  Click here, then go to hybrids on the left, then scroll down to second pic
http://www.thealpinehouse.fsnet.co.uk/crocus%20pages/

Perhaps the author of the site Mr Chief Croconut or his partner in croconut fever from Neustadt will fill in more info.  I think it's a "love it" or "hate it" sort of thing!

[mark smyth]

Those two have been extremely quiet this summer

[Maggi Young]

Giles, check out Ian's Bulb Logs of  No. 13/05 http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2005/290305/log.html

and  No. 13/06   http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/300306/log.html

[Giles]

Am I impressed. 3 replies in less than 1 hour!!!!
There's still the question of:
Crocus goteborgensis
Crocus x goteburgensis
Crocus gothenbergensis
Crocus x gothenbergensis

I know I really ought to get out more, and get a life, and all that, but names are important(!)
If it its an interspecific hybrid it's going to be C x (something) I guess.
Books/Googling/PlantFinder aren't helping.
Please Mr Croconut(s)?.....

I note on the Bulb Log entry Ian says 'this is the crocus that I am most often asked for and it is possibly my least favourite'
.....I guess I never claimed to have good taste!

[Maggi Young]

Well, the Swedish folk would spell it Crocus x goteborgensis whereas we English speakers would incline to  Crocus x gothenburgensis  But I believe that the former is the correct name.

Take anything Ian writes regarding spelling with a pinch of salt.... he is dyslexic 

Crocus x gotoburgensis  is how it was  first described

[Giles]

Thankyou,kind folk, as always.
Giles

[Lesley Cox]

Those two have been extremely quiet this summer

That's because up with you, there are no (?) crocuses flowering at the moment. Soon be autumn, then watch out.

[Lesley Cox]

I wouldn't suggest for a moment that Ian's taste was other than the best Maggi, but I think in this case he speaks from the position of being one of those fortunate, (relatively) few people who have a stock of either this hybrid or its beautiful parents. I have none of the three so can say (with IMPECCABLE taste Giles) that I think the hybrid is quite lovely and if I ever have a chance to obtain it or to repeat the cross, will do so with great speed and greater pleasure in anticipation.

[tonyg]

Mark - I'm always quiet - I consider it a strength
I think the question has been answered already
As this is not a plant that I grow myself I can only suggest references.  There was a write-up in the AGS bulletin a few years back but I don't have the number handy.

[Thomas Huber]

Nothing new can be added from Neustadt 

[Diane Clement]

There was a write-up in the AGS bulletin a few years back but I don't have the number handy.

I seem to recall that it was shown by Eric Webster of Loughborough and got a PC some years ago.  The Alpine Garden Society has a cumulative index on-line.  Go to here to find the reference where it is listed as  Crocus x gotoburgensis

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/servlet/indexservlet?command=listentries&category=Crocus

[Giles]

........a fifth way of spelling it?
(!!!!)
Giles