Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[de.da.]

Hello!
I just found this photo from last year.
Is that Cr. tomm. 'Ruby Giant'?
Thank you-Daniel

[Armin]

Daniel,
it resembles cv. Ruby Giant (sterile hybrid).
I'm a bit careful as digi cams do not reproduce its real color.
But flower shape and stem color do fit.

[Janis Ruksans]

Hello!
I just found this photo from last year.
Is that Cr. tomm. 'Ruby Giant'?
Thank you-Daniel

RUBY GIANT
There are some very similar, too, but this one looks as true Ruby Giant.
Janis

[de.da.]

Thank you, Janis and Armin.
I will write it down as a 'Ruby Giant'.
For many days we had no more sun.
But tomorrow it will be sunny.At last!
Daniel

[Melvyn Jope]

Can the experts please advise if this is C.tommasinianus? The plant originated from Northern Greece but I can find no reference to this species growing there.

[tonyg]

Can the experts please advise if this is C.tommasinianus? The plant originated from Northern Greece but I can find no reference to this species growing there.

Certainly looks very like C tommasinianus which does have a habit of appearing in places where it does not belong .... I have a couple of pots here where tommies have taken up residence while the original occupant seems to have moved out!

[mark smyth]

A few years ago I posted a white Crocus in a trough where I don't have any Crocus. I removed them but I think they failed to flower last year. All are flowering now. The flower looks pristine white to the eye but the camera shows pale cream on the outers. The leaves are very small and thin. What is it?

[Martin Baxendale]

A few years ago I posted a white Crocus in a trough where I don't have any Crocus. I removed them but I think they failed to flower last year. All are flowering now. The flower looks pristine white to the eye but the camera shows pale cream on the outers. The leaves are very small and thin. What is it?

Looks like a white tommie to me.

[mark smyth]

So white and no purple streaks?

[Martin Baxendale]

So white and no purple streaks?

Mmm. A nice clean white. Segments a bit narrow but nice and clean.

[Janis Ruksans]

I agree, looks like white tommie. I had earlier two purest white tommies without any hint, stripe of lilac, but both got virus infection.
Janis

[David Nicholson]

This is the first seedling to flower in a pot of seed from one or other of the exchanges and labelled Crocus speciosus, sown September 2008. Since all the previously sown speciosus seed I've had has turned out to be pulchellus or hybrids I'm suspicious of this one. It's way past the time of the year I'd expect either of them to flower; it lacks the veining I'd expect to see in speciosus; it's pale lilac that I'd expect from pulchellus and it's smaller than I'd expect speciosus to be. Sorry about the quality of the images but it's dark and chucking it down here today and I had to bring this indoors to open it and indeed to photograph it. I'd welcome views please.

[Martin Baxendale]

Another tommie, David. Trouble is they seed everywhere, get around and into clumps of other crocus in the garden and then when seed pods come up (they seed prolifically)  people think the seed is from the clump they've seeded into or around.

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Martin, that's another pot to plant out in the garden.

[Janis Ruksans]

This is the first seedling to flower in a pot of seed from one or other of the exchanges and labelled Crocus speciosus, sown September 2008.

Tommies David, only tommies. Sorry.
Janis