Crocus september 2016

[David Nicholson]

Very  pretty Michael.

[sokol]

I stay with Crocus mazziaricus. Here is one from Mt. Othris in Greece.

[Maggi Young]

More beautiful  photos, sokol!

[sokol]

Here are others from Samos and Evia.

[sokol]

Pictures of my most impressive wild Crocus location at Voras, Northern Greece.

[sokol]

and some close-ups

[Yann]

impressive

[brianw]

With such an impressive apparent monoculture I would like to see the same place at other times of the year. The soil must be solid with corms in some places. Vegetable gravel ;-)
What happens to all the seed, or have the individual plants a limited life?

[ruben]

Stunning pictures sokol!
I really love the greyish blue mazziaricus from Mt. othris.

[sokol]

After the Crocus there are many Dactylorhiza cordigera and in July it is nearly overgrazed by cows. I tried to find any Crocus leaves in July 2015 but I was not successful or I was totally blind.

[sokol]

Can anybody help with this Crocus? I noted that the seed was collected at Biokovo Mt. in Croatia in 2010. Is it just Crocus vernus or something else? If my notes were wrong the seed must have been collected in Montenegro as there were no other stations during my trip in 2010.

[Thomas Huber]

Servus Sokol.
This Crocus was named Crocus (vernus ssp) albiflorus (Kitt ex Schult) until 2014, now re-named to Crocus vernus (Hill), but will probably get a new/old name in the next years (~ C. montenegrinus/Kern ex Maw) when the studies of the vernus group are finished

[sokol]

Thank you Thomas and I will use C. montenegrinus till there is another name. Who does the studies?

[ruben]

After long time waiting the crocusseason seems finally started here in Belgium

Crocus bolensis
Crocus (cancellatus) mazziaricus
Crocus salzmanii JP 9177
Crocus cancellatus ssp. cancellatus
Crocus suworovianus lilacinus

[Thomas Huber]

Thank you Thomas and I will use C. montenegrinus till there is another name. Who does the studies?

Helmut Kerndorff, Erich Pasche, Dörte Harpke and others...