Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Tiggrx]

C. medius maybe?

My suggestion would be more Crocus serotinus.
Maybe C. serotinus salzmannii 'Erectophyllus'.
Nice dark form.

Thank you both for the suggestions. I had wondered whether it might be C. medius but I think C. serotinus (and probably subsp. salzmannii) seems to be a better match.

[ChrisB]

I bought this crocus a year ago. The label says Crocus ?medius. Can you tell from this pic whether it is. Should open more in a day or so and I will take more pics then.

[ChrisB]

And a lovely clump of this Crocus, been blooming at least two weeks now. Lost label but I seem to remember planting Crocus sativus in this spot a few years ago. This is the first year it's really bloomed if so, but has been well worth waiting for.  If you read this Maggi, can you tell me how I can turn the pics right way up?

 edit by maggi: I've rotated the pix for you Christine - it's something to do with how the pix are loaded from the camera/device in the first place I think - seems I am able to turn most of them more easily than  the ipad etc.

[ChrisB]

The C. medius? Opened more this am

[Armin]

Hello Chris,

your C. medius is now called C. ligusticus.

From image your nice clump of C. sativus looks more like the very close C. cartwrightianus due shorter stigmas compared to C. sativus.
C. sativus is a sterile clone and does not set seed. So if you get seeds...

[ChrisB]

Thanks Armin, I will rename the one and watch to see if I get seed on the other.  However the latter is in full bloom right now and I thought that species was spring flowering?

[Armin]

All members of 'Crocus Sativus Group' ie. sativus, cartwrightianus, oreocreticus, thomasii, hadriaticus, pallasii, moabiticus, mathewii, asumaniae, have their blossom in autuum.

[Cfred72]

Hello Chris. With flowers blooming as if it were Crocus sativus, the stigma should pass between the tepals of the flower and hang down. I think Armin is right. So you could get seeds thereof.

[ChrisB]

Thank you all. I will certainly look for the seeds.

[Hoy]

Anybody recognize this crocus? (Pyrinees September)

http://www.biologforeningen.org/enbiolog/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=59190

[Armin]

Hi Trond,

2 species come into my mind when I look on the picture: C. nudiflorus and C. serotinous ssp. salzmanni.
By image I tend to the former C. nudiflorus.

[Hoy]

Hi Armin,

Thank you for your suggestion. For me nudiflorus looks right!

Trond

[YT]

Can anyone ID this, please?
This crocus came from JJA Seeds as "354.706 CROCUS VITELLINUS". I now think this is Crocus veneris…

[Janis Ruksans]

Can anyone ID this, please?
This crocus came from JJA Seeds as "354.706 CROCUS VITELLINUS". I now think this is Crocus veneris…

I suppose not veneris. More resemble aleppicus. Can easy to be misidentified with vitellinus if seeds are collected wild (as Jim's seeds mostly were),  because areas of both overlap. C. veneris has 3-4 leaves, aleppicus 5-9. Corm tunics are slightly different, too. veneris - has parallel fibres throughout, aleppicus - slightly reticulated at the apex. I can't check this on attached picture. Veneris come from Cyprus, so I don't think that Jim could mix them.

[YT]

I suppose not veneris. More resemble aleppicus. Can easy to be misidentified with vitellinus if seeds are collected wild (as Jim's seeds mostly were),  because areas of both overlap. C. veneris has 3-4 leaves, aleppicus 5-9. Corm tunics are slightly different, too. veneris - has parallel fibres throughout, aleppicus - slightly reticulated at the apex. I can't check this on attached picture. Veneris come from Cyprus, so I don't think that Jim could mix them.

Thank you very much for your ID, Janis This must be C. aleppicus.