Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Armin]

Hello Anita,
welcome to the croconuts pages. Your crocus does not look like an autuum flowering C. goulimyi which has a whitish stem.
Due to the form of style it looks more like a form of C. serotinous to me.

The streaks and deformed pedals can indicate virus but not always.
Before deciding heading to the bin - can you post a close picture of the flower to see anthers and style and the other 'good ones' for comparison?

[tonyg]

Hi Anita
Yes, I think you are right.  It does look suspiciously like a virus infected flower.  Also I agree with Armin, it looks like C serotinus which I find most susceptible to virus

[Janis Ruksans]

Anita, it is undoubtedly virus infected. I last autumn and this spring destroyed several stocks of C. serotinus for virus infection seen on flowers and/or in spring on leaves.
Janis

[anita]

Armin, Tony and Janis,
Thanks for your advice. I didn't post another picture as it remained cloudy (but no rain) for the next three days and the flower went over without ever opening enough for a really decent shot of the style. However another flower opened from the same batch of corms and this flower was completely clean, so I have erred on the side of caution and tossed the suspect plant.

Anita

[kiwi]

Hi everyone, could someone id this crocus for me?
I have a shot looking down into the flower if required.
Thank you.

[Otto Fauser]

Hi everyone, could someone id this crocus for me?
I have a shot looking down into the flower if required.
Thank you.

Doug , it is C. vernus , usually one the last ones to flower.
 

[goofy]

hello,
first time I have some few crocus in my collection now,
but I estimate starting already with mislabelled plants.

this was bought as "C. laevigatus albus"  
what might it be?





this might be true as C. cancellatus ssp. pamphylicus (white anthers)?





would be nice to hear your decisions

cheers

[I.S.]

  Goofy, the first one is C. speciosus subsp. speciosus and the second one is C. pulchellus.

[goofy]

Goofy, the first one is C. speciosus subsp. speciosus and the second one is C. pulchellus.

thank you Ibrahim,
thats NO GOOD NEWS

I severely hope that the other corms will be true 
but I have some doubts now.........   

cheers

[PeterT]

  ;DI have a pot labled banaticus alba x banaticus alba, C pulchellus is looking very pretty there, but no banaticus- either I mixed the lables or the seed was wrongly named  good thing the other pots of banaticus are correct - including alba 

[Graeme Strachan]

I bought the crocus below as crocus nudiflorus, however all the other pictures I have seen show crocus nudiflorus without any leaves. I have crocus goulimyi and it flowers with leaves but this lacks the more goblet shape. Your identification would be apprecieted.

              regards

                  Graeme Strachan

[Lesley Cox]

The very dark tube looks like C. speciosus 'Oxonian,' likewise, the deep flower colour. However, dare I mention the V word? There seems to be some streaking present.

[tonyg]

Graeme - not good news I'm afraid.  Doubt it is C speciosus which is as leafless at flowering as C nudiflorus.  It might be C nudiflorus from the flower but with leaves like that I'd vote for the closely related C serotinus.  However, like Lesley I think it looks to be virus infected.  The flower has rather blotchy/streaky petals in that photo.  They sometimes go a bit blotchy as they decay but that one looks pretty robust ... but not entirely healthy

[Graeme Strachan]

Lesley/Tony - Thanks for responding.
Below is a picture of the corm I got last year. (a pretty miserable little corm)
Tony - I would agree with you that I don't think it's speciosus as they don't have leaves when they flower.
Regarding virus, it is an older flower and I did "tweak" the photo (as it wasn't quite in focus) and this has enhanced the "blotchyness" on the petals.

             Graeme Strachan

[angie]

Graeme, nice to see some of your crocuses.

Angie