Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[ian mcenery]

A couple of years ago I dropped some small corms I was re-potting and these got mixed up. I kept the labels and potted them up individually. The remaining labels don't seem to be what this is. Would appreciate any ideas please. Looks like a form of kotchyanus

[Martin Baxendale]

A couple of years ago I dropped some small corms I was re-potting and these got mixed up. I kept the labels and potted them up individually. The remaining labels don't seem to be what this is. Would appreciate any ideas please. Looks like a form of kotchyanus

Yes, definitely kotschyanus.

[ian mcenery]

Thank you Martin I thought so

[Pauli]

Could somebody name this plant?

It should originate from the Peloponnes.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

[tonyg]

Could somebody name this plant?

It should originate from the Peloponnes.

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

Crocus laevigatus .... probably.  It could be Crocus boryi which in some forms very similar in flower.  Crocus laevigatus is mostly smaller and has distinctive, hard, eggshell-like corm tunics. 

[Pauli]

Thanks Tony,

this was my hope, since it is distinctly smaller than the plants I grow as boryi!

[tonyg]

I have received an enquiry.

Three pictures of a yellow crocus growing near Kayseri on Erciyes Dag near melting snow.  Lots of Colchicum szovitsii nearby.

My first thought from shape of flowers was Crocus flavus but ? does this grow in the area?  Perhaps Crocus ancyrensis?     

Help please!

[Armin]

Hi Tony,
a nice croci for identification.

C. chrysanthus is reported from Kayseri, too.
Flower shape and style can be quite variable in color and shape...flowers with leaves ect.

[Janis Ruksans]

I would more tend to chrysanthus, but this is case where corm tunic's check is obligatory. I don't think that it could be flavus, as subsp. flavus with trifid style is not growing there.
Janis

[Judith]

Hello All,
    When we were in the Balkans studying hellebores we were fortunate enough to see quite a few species Crocus in flower.  A very few small non-flowering bulbs had to come home with me and some bulbs have reached flowering size including a nice specimen of Crocus vernus heuffelianus last year. When I went out yesterday I saw this beauty
any ideas?

[tonyg]

Judith, I think you have Crocus vernus.  It may be an albino form of 'heuffelianus', long ago I was given some 'Balkan Vernus' by Primrose Warburg.  They grew in her lawn at South Hayes and included dark purple with dark tips, pale lilac without and pure white.

[Judith]

Thanks, Tony,  I thought that's probably what it was, but the photos I saw online just didn't look right.

[johnw]

Judith, I think you have Crocus vernus.  It may be an albino form of 'heuffelianus', long ago I was given some 'Balkan Vernus' by Primrose Warburg.  They grew in her lawn at South Hayes and included dark purple with dark tips, pale lilac without and pure white.

Are there articles about on Primrose Warburg and her many interests? Also the hybridizing she did or seed sources theat she persued.  Such a fascinating woman and yet we only hear of her Galanthus passion and little of the other plants in her garden.   Perhaps there are articles she wrote in old AGS or SRGC Journals or the like?  Too bad she didn't write a book.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Judith, I think you have Crocus vernus.  It may be an albino form of 'heuffelianus', long ago I was given some 'Balkan Vernus' by Primrose Warburg.  They grew in her lawn at South Hayes and included dark purple with dark tips, pale lilac without and pure white.

Are there articles about on Primrose Warburg and her many interests? Also the hybridizing she did or seed sources theat she persued.  Such a fascinating woman and yet we only hear of her Galanthus passion and little of the other plants in her garden.   Perhaps there are articles she wrote in old AGS or SRGC Journals or the like?  Too bad she didn't write a book.

johnw

I'll check that out tomorrow, John.

[Judith]

Hi Maggi,
Don't you ever sleep? It's 6 pm here, so that must make it 11ish or so in Scotland. Been dark for a long time anyway.
I've read bits about Primrose Walburg and her garden in books and magazine articles over the years, The Garden
surely has some.
Be well,
Judith