Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[mark smyth]

Anyone know this Crocus? It looks like a pale sieberi tricolor. I have borrowed the image from Jim Almonds web site
http://freespace.virgin.net/almond.jim/

[Lesley Cox]

Like a version of sieberi sublimis tricolor but creamy where it is white. It looks utterly delicious, whatever it is Mark.

[mark smyth]

Delish and I want it

[Paul T]

Not quite the striking contrast of the tricolor, but very nice.  My seeds from the tricolor I harvested this season are suddenly looking more interesting? 

Given I had a few sieberi out at the same time (although most were the other side of the crocus garden), it will be interesting to see whether there is anything different in there.

[Janis Ruksans]

Anyone know this Crocus? It looks like a pale sieberi tricolor. I have borrowed the image from Jim Almonds web site
http://freespace.virgin.net/almond.jim/

Mark, It is sieberi tricolor, but commercial "joke" - you can met such pictures in most large catalogues (blue and red daffodils etc., etc.)
Janis

[mark smyth]

Janis this photo was taken at an alpine show in England

I agree some web sites and catalogues show photos that have been doctored

[tonyg]

The first clone of C sieberi Tricolor that I obtained has a tendancy to look paler on the inside as the flowers age.  As this is a show pic it may well be  a pot that was 'put on cold hold' for the big day.  Also likely to have been under artificial lights which can distort colours a bit ... although I don't thikn it is that far off.

[mark smyth]

I have emailed Jim but no reply so far

[mark smyth]

I'm excited right now. I've just been in the green house and find there is a yellow flower with orange bases coming up in on of my laevigatus pots. Is there a yellow laevigatus. Would an albino be white?

[mark smyth]

Here it is. I'll try for better photos tomorrow

[mark smyth]

Brian Mathew mentions a cream laevigatus in his book. I dont collect seeds so could a yellow seedling come from normal parents? Genetics would suggest both parents would need to carry the recessive gene. If Crocus follow similar genetics to birds.

[tonyg]

There are (at least) a couple of clones of Crocus laevigatus with yellow outers in cultivation.  I suspect there are many many more in the wild

[mark smyth]

Thanks Tony.

[Lesley Cox]

Yours Mark, looks just like one I had from Marcus Harvey as "gold-backed" laevigatus. I thought "gold" was a bit optomistic, but it is very pretty never-the-less.

[mark smyth]

Lesley has your one gone to Crocus heaven?