Erythronium 2009

[Gerry Webster]

Chris - Pottertons nursery catalogue lists a plant as E.dens-canis niveum & describes it as from Bulgaria:
http://www.pottertons.co.uk/pott/view_product.php?pid=2373
If Rob Potterton sees this he may be able to provide  more information.

[Hristo]

Cheers Gerry, kind of confirms what I thought about Bulgaria having ssp niveum. though as I mentioned the ssp is not listed in Flora Bulgarica, hey ho!

Flowering today;
E.oregonum
E.tuolumnense 'Pagoda'

[Lesley Cox]

This leaf varient only appeared in the open, maybe in 100 years this leaf form will predominate!?

Hope I'm still around to see it.

[Hristo]

  I understand that one, it is great to get a glimpse of natural selection at work, a privilege normally reserved for much longer lived things, like mountains and rocks! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful shots Chris !
That "Top of the heap" picture is a w e s o m e !! 

[ichristie]

I am glad that I have just found this thread and I am posting some pictures of Erythroniums some very odd ones which I have also sent to Ian Young please help with names,, I do know what some are, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Paul T]

Ian,

Wow.  "Ery 4" in particular is very striking.  Love those throat markings.  Sort of reminiscent of markings of japonicum isn't it (although I've only seen pics of that, never in person).  Very, very nice whatever it is.

[ichristie]

Hi again, erythronium 4 is a E. hendersonii hybrid. I post a picture of a natural hybrid this is a seedling from erythronium Sundisc the leaves are very dark and the flowers pale yellow,  cheers ian the Christie kind.

[Susan Band]

Ian,
Jens Neilson is just back from looking at E. hendersonii in the wild, He saw loads of different colour forms ranging from nearly white to dark lilac. Better doing that and moving tables for Perth Show.
Susan

[ichristie]

Yes indeed Susan, thanks for your efforts the show was good, a few exhibitors missing and sorry but we had to fly home. cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Rodger Whitlock]

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Attached, two photos of Erythronium revolutum from the Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island.

The first is a peculiar aberrant form, the flowers somewhat of an apricot color rather than the usual clear pink. (This color difference is not evident in the photo.) The flowers are also somewhat irregular in form. I collected two bulbs of this along the river quite a number of years ago, in an area where both E. revolutum and E. oregonum grow. In spite of the hundreds of other plants of erythronium in that area, these were the only two of this form. The two aberrant bulbs were not at the same site, one of them being so close to the bank that it probably would have washed away the next time the river flooded.

It is not a hybrid between the two species growing there. Hybrids of E. revolutum and E. oregonum are common around and are what you would expect: pinks, white, and all colors in between, but nothing like this form.

It may be a hybrid with E. grandiflorum, which grows on but the two sites are about 5 miles apart: rather far for a bee to fly.

The other picture is of a white-flowered form of E. revolutum found upstream from the ecological reserve on . Again, this was a single bulb among a pure stand of thousands upon thousands of ordinary E. revolutum. It is rather frailer than usual with E. revolutum, as is common with albino plants.

While the apricot aberrant form has multiplied modestly over the years, the white-flowered form remains a single bulb to this day.

Are these garden worthy plants? Not really. Both the common local species of Erythronium (E. oregonum and E. revolutum) are very easy from seed and I actually prefer their cleaner lines, greater vigor, and more regular form than these two curiosities of nature.

[Diane Whitehead]

Rodger mentioned the Skutz Falls hybrids between oregonum, which
grows in dry woods, and revolutum, which grows along the stream.

I planted one or two in my garden about 32 years ago, and they have
been seeding around ever since.  They are almost all various shades of
pink, but one is white.

One pale one has put itself into a dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) trunk, across
the path from the main group.  The pathway also has them.  Every year
I intend to dig them out, but haven't got around to it yet.

[Hristo]

Hi Diane,
What a stunning patch of Erythronium, leave em in the path! In the UK I had marsh orchids in my paths, my Mum had cyclamen in hers! Do your hybrids set seed? Anyways, if you would like to swap some Erythronium seed ever please pm me.
Chris.

[ichristie]

Hi again, thanks for the new pictures, I post a special Erythronium picture which Is a hybrid Ery. revolutum called Carol Scott one picture two stages show just how different it is the flower spike is almost bent double then as the flowers open it becomes upright with several flower on each spike it is very nice, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Hristo]

That's a corker of a flower Ian!