Crocus January 2018

[tonyg]

A few milder days and the crocuses surge into flower.  Too soon    It's always better if the cold weather holds the flowers back until the days are longer and the sun higher in the sky.
First, from a mixed pot raised from seed some years ago,  The seed - there was not much - came from various plants under the label Crocus biflorus isauricus.  This one looks like it has crossed with chrysanthus ..... is the name C x Bornmuelleri still valid?
Crocus cyprius - I am slowly building up numbers of this delicate beauty since I obtained a couple of different clones about ten years ago.
Crocus danfordiae -  still small but this form has larger flowers than other danfordiae that I grow
Crocus gargaricus
Crocus herbertii

[tonyg]

Crocus nivalis - from wild collected seed in year 2000
Crocus orphei - from my own seed taken from plants collected as reticulatus on Mt Falakro by David Stephens
Crocus sieberi - classic purple and white
Crocus sieberi - almost without purple markings
Crocus veluchensis

[tonyg]

Two pictures of one of my two plants of 'yellow atticus'.  Both flowered for the first time last year in different seed raisings of Crocus atticus.  Both can be traced back to the same wild collection which I received in 2000 as 'sieberi ssp.'  Yellow in the genes or just lucky chance hybrids?  If hybrids, with what other species?  Cvijicii?  Gargaricus? ?? 

[Paul Cumbleton]

Thanks for the ID Tony. Checking other pictures of Crocus tommasinianus 'Eric Smith' on the web, mine do look just like them. Also, the supplier I got the bulbs from does also sell 'Eric Smith'.

Thanks again
Paul

[Tony Willis]

Crocus biflorus ssp pulchricolor from near Lake Abant Turkey



 edit by m to rotate photo

[ikizzeki]

Greetings from Turkey, Antalya.
C. Antalyensis (Not confirmed)
C.akdagensis ?
C. Fleischeri  (Janis Ruksans confirmed, thanks too)

[sokol]

For some time I could just admire your wonderful Crocus and it was cold and dark here. Crocus were coming out but did not open.

Yesterday was a sunny day and it seemed to be like an explosion of flowers. The bees have been very busy especially with
Crocus antalyensioides.

[sokol]

I am happy with my eastern Crocus species that also started at the weekend to flower.

Crocus alatavicus







Crocus korolkowii



Crocus michelsonii

[sokol]

How to distinguish Crocus atticus from Crocus sublimis when they are in flower? The first is from sea level at the southern tip of Evia, the second from Mt. Kandila in the middle of Evia. The third crocus is of unknown origin.







Crocus cyprius was fast, three years from seed to flower.

[sokol]

Some more pictures taken at the sunny Monday.

Crocus adanensis





Crocus babadagensis, which opened the flowers at lower temperatures as most of the others.





Crocus danfordiae

[sokol]

Crocus boryi was rather late last autumn here but there are two origins that started in January,

a pot full of seedlings from Kithnos that started to flower last weekend:





from SW-Kefalonia:



Crocus fleischeri from Chios:

[sokol]

I have got a name for this one as Crocus concinnus yesterday:







Crocus tauricus:

[udo]

Nice pictures Stefan! Here also a bit sun yesterday, only in frame the first open flowers.
Crocus 'Rainbow Gold', a cross between C.veluchensis from Bulgaria and C.cvijicii from Greece

[annew]

Now you all know I like my daffodils and snowdrops but the crocuses are wonderful to add a bit of drama in the sea of white and yellow!

[Janis Ruksans]

How to distinguish Crocus atticus from Crocus sublimis when they are in flower? The first is from sea level at the southern tip of Evia, the second from Mt. Kandila in the middle of Evia. The third crocus is of unknown origin.

In sublimis flower throat is distinctly pubescent, in atticus mostly glabrous or sparsely pubescent, but the best feature to separate both is corm tunics - coarsely reticulated with long neck in atticus and finely reticulated with short neck in sublimis