Eranthis 2021

[Herman Mylemans]

Eranthis x tubergenii ‘Sachsengold’

[Herman Mylemans]

Eranthis hyemalis 'Noël Ayres'

Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'

[Joakim B]

Lovely barer of spring.
Today was first time I saw them open here in Sweden. I have not seen cultivars spread as the normal so difficult to determine how different these are from a distance. Up close I see the difference but these plants are to be loved in bulk and from distance I think.

[kris]

Eranthis hyemalis 'Noël Ayres'

Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'

Spring has arrived !!

[Roma]

Eranthis hyemalis





Eranthis 'Guinea Gold'

[Stefan B.]

 

Eranthis hyemalis 'Schwefelglanz'

[Stefan B.]

Eranthis hyemalis Flora Plena

[Leena]

Once again I don't know what Eranthis I have:(.
These all came in the same bag as E.hyemalis.
The first one is E.hyemalis, and the second one is E.cilicica, I think.
But what is the third one? It has much darker/browner leaves than the first one, and it has also set seeds last year (while around the two first ones there are no seedlings).
It is also a little different shade of yellow, more golden, than the first E.hyemalis. Difficult to see today when flowers were closed but obvious yesterday in sunshine.

[Herman Mylemans]

Lena, nice to see early spring again. About Eranthis you should reread this article :
https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Jan291391022895IRG49.pdf

[Leena]

Thanks Herman, that is a good article:). Green leaf E.hyemalis and E.cilicica are  clear, but the brown leaf one is unclear to me. If it is E. x tubergenii, I didn't think it could form seeds,
but x tubergenii can be fertile? Or can there be different leaf coloured E.hyemalis and it is still just another form of E.hyemalis? All these flower at the same time now, E.cilicica started a few days later than the other ones.

[Mariette]

Eranthis x tubergenii ´Sachsengold´is a fertile seed-strain, and Yours may belong to these. That was a very worthwhile bag You bought! 

[Leena]

Mariette, thank you! My plants must be something like that, because they come up brown, and leaves are different colour than normal hyemalis. And golden colour matches 'Sachsengold'. Maybe these are seedlings of it from big commercial growers, and found their way to cheap bag of Eranthis, especially when in the same bag there was all three sorts of Eranthis. It was a bargain.

[Mariette]

In my garden, Eranthis x tubergenii ´Sachsengold´already set seed. The plant top left was acquired in 2017 under that name, the plant to the right is already a chance -seedling which flowered for the first time this year. Below is a piece of a plant from elderly friends which they got as "fertile Eranthis x tubegenii" before the seed strain was named ´Sachsengold´for commercial purpose. These clones, which prolifically set seed compared with Eranthis hyemalis, differ slightly and are offered wholesale by the hundreds.

[Leena]

These clones, which prolifically set seed compared with Eranthis hyemalis, differ slightly and are offered wholesale by the hundreds.

Thank you Mariette, mine must be just one of them!

[Guff]

This was the first year I have seen flowers from seed grown. Wondering the best way to collect seeds?

I use empty tea bags and staple ends to collect seeds from Hellebore's, suppose I could do that.