Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Maggi Young]

Here it is again in closeup

I would go with C. etruscus as Tony proposed.

But please check if it has a yellow center, then it could be C. kosaninii too.
I grew such pale, striped form from dutch origin but lost it by black frost.

 Looks like it has a yellow throat to me......

[de.da.]

Hi@all!
I have some questions...
Could that be a real Cr. candidus `Subflavus` (C. Candidus x olivieri)?

Do all Cr.tommasianus have this striped shell?

Is that Cr.vernus `Pickwick`?

Cr.vernus `Grand Maitre`?!

Cr. sieberi `Firefly`?!

Cr.flavus `Yellow Gigant` (or other name...)


THANK YOU!!!

[Thomas Huber]

Good morning Daniel.

This isn't candidus subflavus, your plants leaves are too small.
Your firefly is a mix of tommasinianus and etruscus 'Zwanenburg'
The rest looks OK.

[de.da.]

Hi Thomas.
Thanks for comment!
I saw, that the `Firefly`are not right.
An that they are some tommies.
But I never would have thought, that this are etruscus...

The Cr.c.`subflavus`looks like angustifolius?!
Dani

[Thomas Huber]

Hi Daniel.
To be correct your plants are only sold as etruscus Zwanenburg,
but in fact they are an old cultivated form of Crocus vernus.

[tonyg]

Hi@all!
I have some questions...
Could that be a real Cr. candidus `Subflavus` (C. Candidus x olivieri)?

THANK YOU!!!

Looks like it might be C angustifolius.

[Maggi Young]

I'm posting these photos for ID, please,  for forumist  ikizzeki

He says : "the pictures are so important for me because they are about to set seed. I wish to send seeds for new year seed distribution. So I need their species names. The one with the purple throat is mathewii, I think .
Best regards from warm Antalya.
Izzet"

[Pauli]

A crocus from about 1600msm on Biokovo mountain  in Croatia. Very broad leaves.
Is this a biflorus  variety or albiflorus? Any suggestions sre very welcome!

[Thomas Huber]

Hi Herbert.

Looks like a plant from the vernus group, so it could be albiflorus or exiguus/vernus.
The altitude points for albiflorus which is a high alpine plant.

Biflorus/weldenii have papery corm tunics with basal rings, and the other two
varieties from Biocovo (dalmaticus and reticulatus) have reticulated tunics.

[Pauli]

Many thanks Thomas.
I thought so, but was not sure.

This was the only Crocus I found on the mountain, the others already dormant or eaten! But there was plenty reward in form of Edraianthus ssp.

[pehe]

In the autumn I posted a pic of a crocus I bought as mathewii. The identity was not confirmed then, so here it is again this time with a pic of the corms too. I believe it is a poor coloured mathewii, but I am not sure.

The other crocus is labeled C. cartwrightianus Albus. What do the experts say?

As you can guess I have started repotting my crocuses. The corms are in general large and have multiplied very well. It have been a very good crocus year for me. As a bonus there are seeds on most species.

Poul

[udo]

Poul,
your Crocus mathewii looks like a hybrid from Crocus hadriaticus.

[Lesley Cox]

So pleased to see the original Croconuts here again, especially Thomas and Dirk. I'm sure you can tell me what this one is, in flower now (remembering it is the coldest part of winter here, but many "spring" crocuses are in flower so it seems to be an early season for them.

This is from seed but the label is totally washed out, even the date and source but I don't think I have it elsewhere. 3 pics and the colour is a little richer than in the images. There seems to be some virus striping but not on the flowers themselves, only in the images, due to rather horrible light conditions.

So what is this please?

[Thomas Huber]

Hi Lesley.

Still it isn't easy to identify a Crocus only by flower without seeing the corm tunic,
but to me it looks like Crocus salzmannii.

[udo]

Hello Lesley

for a spring flowering Crocus, i would maybe tap on Crocus veluchensis or Crocus vernus.