Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Rimmer de Vries]

Thank you Tony

Rimmer

[arisaema]

Haven't emptied the camera yet, but what's the name of the Crocus growing in the mountains straight above/behind Alanya?

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus roseoviolaceus! Very typical, only black anthers slightly hided by yellow pollen. Se my entry Crocotrip with Ibrahim.
Janis

[I.S.]

  arisaema,
 Very nice photos from wild I would say this is C. biflorus subsp. isauricus but to be sure first need to see corm tunics.

[I.S.]

  Janis I can't be sure for Crocus roseoviolaceus! in shape and in size yes. But anthers and styles look very different!

[Janis Ruksans]

  Janis I can't be sure for Crocus roseoviolaceus! in shape and in size yes. But anthers and styles look very different!

Yes, I don't like anthers, too. But number of leaves - pictured plants has 3-4 leaves, in roseoviolaceus 2-4! C. biflorus isauricus has 4-7 leaves. Most important is leaf section. If it is without ribs in side grooves - it is roseoviolaceus.
Janis

[I.S.]

 Here is my photos of Crocus roseoviolaceus from a single flower. Filaments are also darker than isauricus! and another very important difference is the tooths around the tunics ring! While isauricus has not tooths on rings.
 

[arisaema]

Does this help?

[Janis Ruksans]

On my pictures from same spot tunic is without tooth. I'm adding here two pictures made N of Alanya last spring and one -great surprise for me. Shortly ago I wrote on Forum that crocus dug out and replanted in flowering time will need 2 years to recover. Here you can see flower from last spring at blooming time collected corm. After colledcting plant travelled a week before it was potted in my nursery. I ciollected 12 corms, 2 sent to Erich and 10 planted by myself and one of them bloomed   Greatest surprise. But returning to identification - you can see that stigma can vary but overall view, color of tube, petal outside and inside really looks as in roseoviolaceus. Corm tunic picture is from herbarium sample.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Does this help?

Picture of corm is resized and so too small to judge. "Arisaema" - may be you can send me full size picture of corm dirrectly to my e-mail address and I would be pleased for private information about exact spot where you collected it. It could help, too.
Janis ( janis.bulb@hawk.lv )

[arisaema]

Thank you both, I'll email you privately later today or tomorrow As far as I can tell from the full size picture there are no teeth on the tunic rings.

[Pauli]

Hello,


autumn croci are obviously better known than spring ones!

This plant is flowering for me now, could it be C. longiflorus?

[udo]

Hello Pauli,

this Crocus looks like hadriaticus f. lilacinus.

[Pauli]

Thanks Udo,

that fits well. I did not write an extra label, but it is next to a Cyc. graecum, collected on Mount Taygetos, where we also found lilac hadriaticus!

[daveyp1970]

Could somebody id this it was bought as Crocus tournefortii 

I get a better pic if needed