Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Maggi Young]

Another query - can anyone ID this crocus, please?

[pehe]

Poul, look here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5060.msg138259#msg138259   - to see 'E.P. Bowles'   - just like yours.

Maggi,

Thank you - yes they are identical. I will correct the label, inform my source and keep on searching for the real EA Bowles

Poul

[Thomas Huber]

Another query - can anyone ID this crocus, please?

Sorry Maggi, can't help - this doesn't look like any cultivar that I know.
Maybe it's a seedling/hybrid - at least a nice one 

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Hubi -  I couldn't match it to any in your wonderful lists and I did wonder if it might be a seedling. Pretty thing!

[Janis Ruksans]

I've got these as C. chrysanthus EA Bowles. Could someone confirm that?
The are different from John Grimshaw's pictures in Hubi's COMPILATION OF CROCUS CHRYSANTHUS/BIFLORUS, but close to the picture in Bowles book Colchicum & Crocus.

Poul

I think that it is E.P. Bowles. See pictures:  23- E.A. Bowles; 24 - E.P. Bowles (outer flower segments outside)

[pehe]

I think that it is E.P. Bowles. See pictures:  23- E.A. Bowles; 24 - E.P. Bowles (outer flower segments outside)

Thank you Janis,
I am now convinced that it is EP Bowles.

Poul

[de.da.]

Hi.
I buy them as Cr.chrysanthus `Herald`.
But one of them is different.
It is taller with bright yellow and more lilac than brown/lilac.
But what ist the right?


Thanks- Daniel

[Maggi Young]

 Daniel, you can compare with all the cultivars here     http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5060.0 - in Thomas Huber's photos of many cultivars . 


 I think the larger is 'Herald' and the smaller, more brown, is 'Elegance' 

[de.da.]

Hello Maggi.
That could be.
Thanks, Daniel

[ian mcenery]

First flower on a seedling from Crocus group. It is labelled C minimus and I wondered if our croconuts could say either way whether it was. The colour is very deep and the photo does not really do it justice. Whatever it is it is very striking

[Matt T]

Looks right to me Ian, and not dis-similar to the form from Col de Bavella, which is also very dark on the outers.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2010Mar281269808673Crocus_minimus.pdf

[ian mcenery]

Looks right to me Ian, and not dis-similar to the form from Col de Bavella, which is also very dark on the outers.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2010Mar281269808673Crocus_minimus.pdf

Thanks Matt I had looked on the crocus pages but the anthers and style are different see picture this is why I am not sure

[Matt T]

Hi Ian,
If it's seed from the 'Bavella' form, the stigma will be white rather than the orangey-yellow of other C. minimus. In his book Crocuses, Janis says of 'Bavella':

The color of wild forms of Crocus minimus varies widely. A form collected in Corsica at Col de Bavella...Quite unusual for such deep lilac-colored flowers is the white stigma which normally in C. minumus is yellow or orange.

You can see my plant from Col de Bavella here and in a cameo role here

[ian mcenery]

Hi Ian,
If it's seed from the 'Bavella' form, the stigma will be white rather than the orangey-yellow of other C. minimus. In his book Crocuses, Janis says of 'Bavella':
You can see my plant from Col de Bavella here and in a cameo role here

Matt thanks for that. The seed wasn't identified as this but it does look as if this is the one . Interestingly I saw the true Bavella the other day at a friends and this seedling seems even more striking in the colour contrast of the outers

[Maggi Young]

What struck me about your seedling, Ian was the depth of colour running down the tube and the rich velvety look of the purple. A little crackers!