Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[sokol]

I will check that. The plants will have some time to develop as it shall rain here till friday.

[Pauli]

Any suggestions for this Crocus?
In reality it is a Little more blueish.

[Armin]

Herbert,

is it from Italy?
It is difficult to judge from image - perhaps it is a pale colored form of C. ligusticus?

[Pauli]

Thanks Armin for your help. I do grow ligusticus, but as you say, it is usually much darker. Perhaps a lighter seedling....

[Martinr]

Mmm, The label for this said Crocus Candida, so not as far as I know a valid name. Flowering now. Can't get near my Crocus book due to builder chaos! So suggestions please.

[Armin]

Martin,

your crocus is a typical C. ligusticus. Many stocks of commerce are virused but yours look healthy.

I grew it 2 or 3 years outside in the garden. But this beautiful species, amoung many others, didn't survive Feb. 2012 bare frosts.

[Martinr]

Thanks Armin.

[Tristan_He]

These have popped up in one of my 'crocus areas' in the grass. Any ideas? I have a vague memory of buying C. suworowianus from Janis a few years ago but I don't think they have flowered before.

[Cfred72]

Crocus pulchellus?

[sokol]

I would also say the pale one is Crocus pulchellus, the other one Crocus speciosus.

[Thomas Huber]

Yes, the blue is C. speciosus,
the pale one is C. pulchellus 'Zephyr' or a seedling of 'Zephyr'.
In my lawn I find 3 typs of Zephyr-seedlings:
- white flowers, like pulchellus Albus
- blue speciosus-like flowers with white anthers,
- greyish flowers, looking like the parent plant

[Tristan_He]

Thanks all. I wonder where they came from, as I don't recall planting either species. They are very pretty though!

[Tiggrx]

Can anyone put a name to this Crocus please? I bought it as C. nudiflorus but am sure it isn't, unless it's a very different looking form than the other plants of that species in my garden. The plant is shorter than that species (12cm tall, flower almost 4cm) and has leaves showing while flowering (almost 2cm long at this stage). The plant is growing from 1 bulb planted this autumn.

[Steve Covey]

C. medius maybe?

[Armin]

My suggestion would be more Crocus serotinus.
Maybe C. serotinus salzmannii 'Erectophyllus'.
Nice dark form.