SRGC Galanthus Poll - in your top 5

[Paddy Tobin]

Gerard,

I agree with you in your last comment on your double snowdrops shown earlier. To the best of my knowledge a poculiformed snowdrop is one where the inner segments are approximately equal to the outer ones. Any definitions of the term I have read have said that the inner segments are "almost equal to the outer". Also, "poculiform" is a description of shape (cup-shaped) and not of colour. So, I believe, your suggestion that your snowdrop might be descriped as poculiformed is a very reasonable one.

To illustrate, I quote from Alan Leslie in the "Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2007 -2008" :

 ‘Angelique’ is a near poculiform selection
from G. nivalis, discovered in a derelict chateau
garden at Perriers, near Rouen, by Mme Gloria
de Bellegard in 1995, and named after her
daughter. It is poculiform in that its inner
segments are almost the same length as the
outers but those inners have a delicate vshaped
mark at the apex, sometimes reduced to
just a small green pip on either side of the
apical sinus (the inner segments are all-white in
a ‘pure’ poculiform snowdrop). It is a delicate,
slender thing and even in the heat of the Hall
resisted any temptation to lift up its outer
segments.


It is a very fortunate find and an interesting snowdrop.

Paddy

[Gerard Oud]

Thank you Paddy, i dont know any other group where i can place it. Poculoformis will be the best i think, but i am not a Charles Darwin,

[Hagen Engelmann]

Gerard, I would take it to the filled drops (Doubles are half filled, like GODFREY OWEN). If you are interested, I would send you an uncomplicated classification system for the drops, witch isn`t botanical overloaded.

[Paddy Tobin]

Hagen,

It would be interesting to see that information posted here.

Paddy

[Gerard Oud]

I am looking forward to it Hagen, please send me that information.

thanks

[Hans J]

Sorry guys ,

but Hagen is really busy in the next days - he is building a runway for elves 

please be patient

[Paddy Tobin]

Thanks be to goodness that the elves may now run away.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Sorry guys ,

but Hagen is really busy in the next days - he is building a runway for elves 

please be patient

Hey man, the Forum is more important, so tell Hagen not to be so elfish.

[Hans J]

Hi all ,

is this not a nice poculiform Galanthus ?

[loes]

now that is a real nice one!has she`s got a name?

[Brian Ellis]

Indeed it is Hans, and two flowers to the scape too - super

[Hans J]

Hi Loes ,

it has not a cultivar name until ...but I could name it "Hans Surprise" ....has anyone better ideas ?

[Martin Baxendale]

Hi all ,

is this not a nice poculiform Galanthus ?

I think Hans is pulling our legs a little. Looks like a leucojum/acis to me (note the spathe and the multiple flowers, etc).

[Maggi Young]

Have a good look.... not two flowers but three to the scape......... .

[Hans J]

Martin ,

thats a very good plant ....maybe I would sell it ( one bulb ) for 200 Euro 

Would you have some pollen from it ?
so your crosses have maybe also three flowers per scape