Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[ChrisB]

Many thanks Janis, I will tell her we need to see the corm before we can confirm what it is.

Edit June 2016 : .... posts from here copied and new pix of corm added - here 
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14424.0

[tonyg]

A member of our Northumberland group has asked me to see if anyone here can help ID this crocus purchased as C. zonatus.  When I checked in the Ruksans tome, it is a synonym for C. kotschyanus ssp kotschyanus.  But is this that bulb please?

Definitely speciosus .... C zonatus of trade is usually virused and very shy flowering.

[Maggi Young]

No opinions on t00lie's  pix on the previous page?
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4369.msg340049#msg340049

[tonyg]

No opinions on t00lie's  pix on the previous page?
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4369.msg340049#msg340049

Some of the biflorus group were tricky to ID under Mathew.  In the new erae unless we get precise small details of the plant and/or exact wild location, tricky is not an adequate way to put it.   

[Maggi Young]

Some of the biflorus group were tricky to ID under Mathew.  In the new erae unless we get precise small details of the plant and/or exact wild location, tricky is not an adequate way to put it.   

 

[johnw]

C zonatus of trade is usually virused and very shy flowering.

And every year this one arrives in Canada from Holland via either Vanhof & Blokker or Ruigrok or both and never flowers.  One wonders when the suppliers, retailers and consumers will wake up.

The latest arrival is Crocus chrysanthus 'Roseus'..........

johnw

[annew]

After 7 years my expensive corm of 'C.michelsonii' has finally flowered and looks suspiciously like C sativus. 

[annew]

Is this really C. asumanae?

[tonyg]

Is this really C. asumanae?

A tentative yes ..... point if division of style should be at anther level.  However I cannot see enough to be sure.  Alternative would be Crocus pallasii. 

The other one is indeed Crocus sativus 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Crocus.and.Colchicum/?fref=ts
This FB group has Crocus moabiticus image at top of page and there are more wild habitat shots in recent posts.

[Matt T]

After 7 years my expensive corm of 'C.michelsonii' has finally flowered and looks suspiciously like C sativus. 

That is galling, doubly so when it's supposed to be an expensive beauty. Perhaps the ony occasion to not be please by flowers on C.sativus?

[annew]

With only one flower on the now 13 corms, I don't think it will be in my collection next year!
Thanks for your comment, Tony.

[Maggi Young]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Crocus.and.Colchicum/?fref=ts
This FB group has Crocus moabiticus image at top of page and there are more wild habitat shots in recent posts.

N.B  These pages are only visible to logged in Facebook members

[tonyg]

N.B  These pages are only visible to logged in Facebook members

And re-reading Anne's post I see it is MICHELSONII in the mix-up .... not moabiticus as I read it first time.     I must stop posting late at night!

[Janis Ruksans]

With only one flower on the now 13 corms, I don't think it will be in my collection next year!
Thanks for your comment, Tony.

That confirms identification as sativus. It really need long and hot summer to produce many flowers. With me it happens every second or third year only. This autumn I had 4 flowers from three large pots with in total 30-40 corms. A year before blooming was abundant.

[annew]

As I suspected, Janis, Thank you. Long hot summers are very rare in North Yorkshire!