Crocus October 2008

[Gerry Webster]

Gerry, your photo is not so clear, but I seem to see a few dodgy lines there, too.... hope I'm wrong   

Maggi - I think/hope it may be my photo. In the flesh the flower looks OK. Time will tell.

[tonyg]

Gerry, I posted a picture of my Crocus medius a couple of days ago (bought this year from Potterton's) on Reply 260. Can you tell from my picture if it is virused please?

David, I had the same thoughts as Maggi.  Sorry. 

[Thomas Huber]

OK, that's the problem with pictures. In reality it is shining white and not light blue. That's the reason why I am suspicious.

Kenneth, despite the white colour I would still point for C. tournefortii. The long style doesn't look like boryi.
I have a white form of C. tournefortii that turns to bright blue after one or two days of flowering.
Please have a look at your plant in the dark - C. tournefortii remains open at night!

[ashley]

Fine pictures Armin.  Yes that 'Aino' is a particular delight.

[Gerry Webster]

Kenneth, despite the white colour I would still point for C. tournefortii. The long style doesn't look like boryi.

Kenneth - I agree with Thomas that the long style doesn't look like C. boryi. The hybrid C. tournefortii x boryi is a possibility. This is white, stays partially open at night & the ones I had were quite difficult to distinguish from C. tournefortii. A few years ago this was quite frequently found in the bulb trade masquerading as C. tournefortii. I understand that a pure white form of C. tournefortii has been selected in Germany but I don't know when this was first  distributed. It was available in 2006 in the UK.

[Kenneth K]

Thomas & Gerry, thank you for your comments. There is one little problem. I have the garden at my summer house and I am not there so often at nights this time of the year. My first thought was that I have got a white form of C tournefortii. As I have not heard of that, I started to think of something else and therefore my hypothesis of C boryi. I must take a serious discussion with my friend who supplied me with the bulbs, Jimmy Persson in the botanical garden of Gothenburg. I will come back with a report and maybe some better pictures.

[BULBISSIME]

I think my post was lost ..
Here is Crocus laevigatus from Crete

[udo]

Hi Fred,
very nice Crocus laevigatus
Here some pics from me
Crocus biflorus ssp.melantherus
          cancellatus ssp.pamphylicus
          ochroleucus
          robertianus in two forms
         

[David Nicholson]

Gerry, I posted a picture of my Crocus medius a couple of days ago (bought this year from Potterton's) on Reply 260. Can you tell from my picture if it is virused please?

David, I had the same thoughts as Maggi.  Sorry. 

Oh well, you can't win 'em all. As my old Dad used to say 'be happy with a score draw every now and then' 

[Gerry Webster]

Fred - I agree with Dirk, a very nice C. laevigatus. And what a superb photo! I wish I could take pictures like that.

[Anthony Darby]

I have Crocus laevigatus out now. Also C. longiflorus and C. niveus 'Blue Form'.

[dominique]

Thanks all for such fine pics and gorgeous plants. Some of mine now, not so interesting perhaps

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