Galanthus to mid February 2007

[Maggi Young]

Very odd, Anthony. I saw a similar thing, with unusually  long bracts and pedicels  somewhere else recently. Should have mentioned it at the time, can't recall where it was now. Probably in the forum.
Just found it on Sunday 11th ! It's in post #163 of Paddy's, on page 9 of this thread. it is G. n. 'Warei', it seems.

It is most pronounced in your photos, makes the stem look strange. Also the bracts ( is that right, the things like rabbit ears behind the flower) are very divided.  Sharlockii does that to an extent, doesn't it, so that is only a bit odd then!
I can't cope with this, I'm off to look atthe crocus again!

[Anthony Darby]

Don't ya just love 'em?

[ian mcenery]

Maggi for a self pronounced galanthophobe you seem to know an awful lot about them !!!! 

[Johan Mens]

Anthony, it will be repeated, it is scharlockii.
The dutch wholesalers often sell scharlockii as viridapici
Some growers do grow them mixed and you find all sorts of things like warei etc,...
all lenghts of ears

[Anthony Darby]

Does that mean the whole clump is Scharlockii? I started off with a small pot several years ago and have divided them up several times. Some even come up with no green on the outer petals, but that is the only one to look like that above. As the pot was from one clump I have assumed that I have one clone and any variation is purely environmental. My original clump came from the SRGC stand at the Early Bulb Display.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi for a self pronounced galanthophobe you seem to know an awful lot about them !!!!

Ian McE , the answer is simple, as aged Father (old soldier with medals and assorted "decorations") says, Know your enemy!

[John Forrest]

Here is a clump of Galanthus Atkinsii, which I have had for many years and is now all over the garden. It is a very substantial, tall snowdrop which stands up really well to the bracing winds that Blackpool is famous for.

[hadacekf]

I'm hoping that this is Galanthus Viridapice.

[Joakim B]

Maggi I did not know Your father was a thousand year old general from China
Just kidding
"Know your enemy" is from Tzun Tsus classic "Art of war". The spelling of his name varies a lot.
A very nice piece of work that is still vallid today as You know.
Surprice Your enemy is also part of his saying and that You truely did. Well I am not Your enemy nor a galanthofil/phobe just a bit indifferent to them so far.

Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Joakim, father is 93 year old major from Scotland, who, like all clever men, has learned a great deal from history, or at least some very fine quotes!

[ian mcenery]

Franz looks like Viradapice to me. That is of course if mine is the true one.

Maggi who was it said that what we learn from history is that we never learn

[Maggi Young]

Don't know who said it first, Ian, but it's true for most of us, isn't it?
Here's the chap, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

[Anthony Darby]

All I can say is history is a thing of the past.

[David Nicholson]

A shackle to the past or a handrail to the future!!!!!!!!!!

[Paddy Tobin]

Franz,

While I could not claim authority and will remain subject to correction, I think your galanthus may be G. Sharlockii. I say this because to the split spathe which is held upright above the flower - the 'rabbit ears' effect often used to describe 'Sharlockii'.

Paddy