Crocus November 2009

[Paul T]

Chris and Simon,

Thanks for the pics in the wild.  Amazing to see just how much wild variation there is.  The pallasii in particular are glorious in their differences.  Very, very nice.

Thanks to all for their pics.  So very un-crocus here at the moment. 

[dominique]

Nice melantherus Armin (from great origin, of course !)
Curiously here, some early species give again. Certain are very late, others early. Curious !
Crocus cartwrightianus Albus pure white form,
Crocus kotschyanus, nice marked form
Crocus longiflorus

[dominique]

Crocus laevigatus, one with 8 tepals
Crocus laevigatus Albus first day
Crocus laevigatus, from Greece

[dominique]

Crocus ligusticus. One is bicolor   

[dominique]

so fine Crocus ochroleucus !

[Armin]

Dom, superb pictures, too.
Like in particular your fine C. longiflorus and the Greek form of C. laevigatus.
Never seen a bicolor C. ligusticus before - extraordinary and beautiful.

[Armin]

ooh - ochroleucus!

[Paul T]

Very nice, Dominique. 

[ian mcenery]

so fine Crocus ochroleucus !

Dom wonderful plants and photos thanks  I particularly like C ochroleucus 

[dominique]

Crocus oreocreticus
Crocus robertianus (the last one)
Crocus serotinus clusii
Crocus serotinus salzmannii forma Major (très grande fleur)

[dominique]

thank you Paul, Armin and Ian. Ian, I like your niveus late;

[tonyg]

Flowering now in the limestone foothills of the western Rhodopi, Crocus pallasii.
Locally abundant in a range of colours and forms.
Despite being a dull day the flowers were fully open and the bees were visiting.

Some great posts while I was away for a few days.  These of wild C pallasii and later C cancellatus are just superb.  Thanks for your continuing efforts.  I once grew a few Crocus pallasii from the Mt Olympus area.  they did not seem as easily grown as the Turkish C pallasii   and I no longer have them.  Seed next year?

[Gerry Webster]

Curiously here, some early species give again. Certain are very late, others early. Curious !
Crocus cartwrightianus Albus pure white form,
Crocus kotschyanus, nice marked form
Crocus longiflorus

Dom - very nice plants & photos. Your 'Crocus cartwrightianus Albus' appears to be the horticultural form which is actually C. hadriaticus - it has a yellow throat which C. cartwrightianus never has.

[BULBISSIME]

Thyank's all for all this late flowering species, ... but are they late or early species ?? 
Dom, very nice species , we really need to meet together one day 

[dominique]

Gerry, you are probably right, but stigma is far longer than all my different forms of hadriaticus. I had them from seeds
Fred, yes indeed ! It becomes necessary to see us ! We are few in France to apreciate bulbs at this point, and Vienne is not so far of Pontoux. Quelle passion à partager ! Merci à toi
Dom