Biarum

[Oron Peri]

Very nice indeed Oron, do we have to name it as bovei forma giganteum ?
As we can see Janis enjoyed it also...

giganteum extra foetidum...

[ian mcenery]

Here is one I should have posted a few weeks ago. No smell as I recall

Still happy with this one now Ian. If I have to choose only one Biarum , it must be davisii !

Kris Me too

Very nice indeed Oron, do we have to name it as bovei forma giganteum ?
As we can see Janis enjoyed it also...

giganteum extra foetidum...

Oron I take it that you didn't need your eyes open to find it 

[BULBISSIME]

Superb Oron !
 also remember there were some with seeds growing with Allium esclepiadeum.. Is it the same place ?
Wonderfull plant anyway

[Tony Willis]

Oron that is wonderful.

Ian a great success,I just cannot flower either davisii or marmariense,not enough warmth I think.

[Kees Jan]

Here is a small collection of autumn-flowering Biarum from S Turkey: Biarum bovei, B. eximium, B. kotschyi and B. pyrami from my website http://keesjan.smugmug.com

This year I searched for B. davisii ssp. marmarisense, but found no trace of this apparently rare species on the Datca Peninsula.

[Tony Willis]

Kees

you will have seen from my report that I also looked for B. davisii ssp. marmarisense but on the Bozburun peninsular near Taslica.  There were what appeared to be lots of a biarum in leaf but if it had flowered I was clearly too late on the 4th November. The ground was very wet from rain in the previous weeks although on that day it was full sun and about 25c. growing with them were lots of fine Narcissus serotinus.

[Kees Jan]

Here is Biarum davisii ssp. davisii photographed in Crete, autumn 2005. Quite a rare plant, only found a few. (More pics at http://keesjan.smugmug.com/Botanical-trips/Europe in the Crete gallery.)

[BULBISSIME]

Superb picture Kees !
It's really one of my favourite flower ! seems to be alive, ready to walk like an impish

[Hans A.]

First Biarum for this year: Biarum ditschianum -one of the few spring flowering species (even it seems to flower in summer or autumn for most forumist).

[BULBISSIME]

very very early Hans 
do you get seeds from it ?
I never ahd seeds from this species...

[Hans A.]

It flowers the first time here (was given a small offset two years ago of a plant which flowered in August). So I do not know if it will produce seeds. Comparing with most dates of pictures I have seen it is quite early, on the other hand the first introduced plant also flowered in May (and died afterwards ) - please have a look: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8748.1995.tb00505.x/abstract

[Hans A.]

do you get seeds from it ?

Maybe, if the fly did its job

[BULBISSIME]

Waoooo !

superb picture Hans !!!
by the way, I just had a look to my Biarum pots :  B. ditschianum and B. sprunerti are starting to emerge from the ground... very strange season 

[hadacekf]

Biarum tenuifolium produces the seed in my bulb bed below the ground surface.

[Tony Willis]

my first of the year which seems very early

Biarum tenuifolium ssp zeleborii