Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Sinchets]

  Thanks Thomas. I know I have been bitten by that kind of 'commercial selection' before and did have the nonflowering, but quickly increasing C.kotschyanus for a while. Does anyone else have experience with 'commercial forms' that want to take over the world by both seed and corm- like the C.cartwrightianus and C.cancellatus mazziaricus I mentioned?

[Gerry Webster]

I've never had this experience with crocus but I have with Chionodoxa. In a few weeks my garden will look like a Turkish hillside. I am convinced that every seed produces a flowering-size bulb within a year & subsequently increases vegetatively at the same rate. A very pretty weed. 

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Thomas. I know I have been bitten by that kind of 'commercial selection' before and did have the nonflowering, but quickly increasing C.kotschyanus for a while. Does anyone else have experience with 'commercial forms' that want to take over the world by both seed and corm- like the C.cartwrightianus and C.cancellatus mazziaricus I mentioned?

I have three pots of Crocus kotschyanus with corms the size of onions (well nearly!). I bought the originals in 2007 and they flowered once and haven't performed since. They are heading for the bin.

[jnovis]

Can somebody tell me where Labranda in Turkey is, please. Putting it into Google Earth,does not produce an answer.

[ashley]

Jim I think it's also spelled Labraunda, in Muğla Province, SW Turkey.  Those who know the area may comment further.

[Sinchets]

I have three pots of Crocus kotschyanus with corms the size of onions (well nearly!). I bought the originals in 2007 and they flowered once and haven't performed since. They are heading for the bin.

Save the as mouse bait, David. They can be sacrificial lambs 

[David Nicholson]

I have three pots of Crocus kotschyanus with corms the size of onions (well nearly!). I bought the originals in 2007 and they flowered once and haven't performed since. They are heading for the bin.

Save the as mouse bait, David. They can be sacrificial lambs 

 

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Can somebody tell me where Labranda in Turkey is, please. Putting it into Google Earth,does not produce an answer.

Labranda, which is the holy area of Zeus Labraundeus, is in ancient Caria (Southwestern Anatolia), 13 kms northeast of Milas (Mylasa), the city to which it is affiliated. The site is famous with its Temple of Zeus, its delicious water, and its pine and plane tree forests. There are daily tours to Labranda from Bodrum as well which is about 1 hr away.
Hendrik

[Lesley Cox]

I have three pots of Crocus kotschyanus with corms the size of onions (well nearly!). I bought the originals in 2007 and they flowered once and haven't performed since. They are heading for the bin.

Save the as mouse bait, David. They can be sacrificial lambs 

 

Quite seriously David. If mice eat crocus corms, better that they eat poor ones than the better forms when baiting your traps. Fortunately NZ mice don't seem to have acquired the taste. I've never heard of it happening here.

[Tony Willis]

Can somebody tell me where Labranda in Turkey is, please. Putting it into Google Earth,does not produce an answer.

Labranda, which is the holy area of Zeus Labraundeus, is in ancient Caria (Southwestern Anatolia), 13 kms northeast of Milas (Mylasa), the city to which it is affiliated. The site is famous with its Temple of Zeus, its delicious water, and its pine and plane tree forests. There are daily tours to Labranda from Bodrum as well which is about 1 hr away.
Hendrik

Hendrik forgot to mention the several quarries in the area and the enormous number of lorries which have reduced the approach road to a state where it has one foot deep ruts which shake the car to pieces and make you glad its a hire car and not your own. It is where Crocus nerimaniae was originally described from.

[Roma]

Thanks Thomas. I know I have been bitten by that kind of 'commercial selection' before and did have the nonflowering, but quickly increasing C.kotschyanus for a while. Does anyone else have experience with 'commercial forms' that want to take over the world by both seed and corm- like the C.cartwrightianus and C.cancellatus mazziaricus I mentioned?

Crocus pulchellus is gradually spreading through my garden by seed spread by ants.  It also increases by division.  I think i got it originally as a few corms at a Discussion weekend but do not know its origin.  The crocuses in the garden came from seed and/or cormlets in old potting compost.  It flowers very well . I have posted pictures of it flowering in October.

[Maggi Young]

 Roma's pix are here :  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4261.msg116266#msg116266

[Sinchets]

Does anyone have any ideas on this one? Could it be my 'lost' Crocus adanensis?

[Armin]

Simon,
a very beautiful crocus. I checked my C. adanensis reference pictures but unfortunately none are matching

In the first view I thought of a form of C. abantensis but your sample leaves are much broader then typical and the whitish anthers and the black bottom inner markings confuse me.
Maybe it is a nice C. biflorus ssp. (adami) hybrid?
As usual only a picture of the corm could give us more hints...

[Janis Ruksans]

Does anyone have any ideas on this one? Could it be my 'lost' Crocus adanensis?

It isn't Crocus adanensis (see attached picture). What is the corm tunic?
Janis