Galanthus winter 2009/2010

[Tony Willis]

Melvyn thanks for that comment which is interestingas you have seen them in situ. The book 'galanthus' has a picture of elwesii on Vermion and there are several sites on the mountain and so perhaps both grow there and there are also hybrids.

Here are two pictures I took last year of the base of the shoots which may help

[ian mcenery]

a couple of  ordinary unamed Galanthus elwesii out today

Tony whatever these are they are without doubt  very elegant 

[Martin Baxendale]

Melvyn thanks for that comment which is interestingas you have seen them in situ. The book 'galanthus' has a picture of elwesii on Vermion and there are several sites on the mountain and so perhaps both grow there and there are also hybrids.

Here are two pictures I took last year of the base of the shoots which may help

Some of the leaf bases look like elwesii (convolute) and some like gracilis (applanate).

[mark smyth]

reply 438 page 30 ( previous page)
elwesii Sir Edward Elgar - sorry it's wrong. They were bought from Linnet Farm

[johnw]

A lovely lot Tony. You'll have to grow seed of them to see what surfaces in round two.

johnw

[galanthophile]

Tony they are quite beautiful plants of elwesii, very distinctive and pristine looking like all of your plants!

[Diane Whitehead]

Another day photographing in my favourite snowdrop place.

[Paddy Tobin]

Diane,

What remarkably long petals. Well named!

Paddy

[Melvyn Jope]

No they are not the same clone. Melvyn has seen some of these plants in the wild so he may have a comment on them.

Then they're very consistent in their marking and hopefully should come fairly true from seed, if they set seed. They look very strong too. Really nice to see them. If Melvyn has more info on this population, I'd love to hear it.

I have found that I have just three images of the Galanthus site that I visited on Mt Vermion.
Photo 1 is a habitat shot. As Tony mentioned there are more sites on Mt Vermon so this habitat may not be typical.
The second is a typical plant, whilst there were many plants at this location they were all growing as singles. As previously mentioned I visited the site in late April and the seed pods were well developed.
Photo three shows the only variegated plant that I have seen in the wild.
In my next post I will show close ups of the seedlings grown from this site.

[loes]

anyone growing galanthus Irish Green?
I bought it last summer but no sign of it yet and I like the weird ones very much! needless to tell I got a very good bulb.

[Melvyn Jope]

The first nine images are seedlings from the Mt Vermion site. I am not sure that the leaf pictures are going to help determine the species involved but the flowers seem to be consistent in the way the innner segments flair out. My inclination is to stick with G.gracilis. Is it not reasonable to accept that G.gracilis has a variable leaf rather than suggest hybridisation with G.elwesii?
The final photo is a plant I purchased in a group pot with four others at Wisley yesterday, there were many on offer all labelled G.elwesii but such a variable selection, some could easily have been described as G.gracilis.

[art600]

Melvyn

Hope they have more of No. 10 when I visit next Saturday for the Cyclamen Show. 

[Sinchets]

Please forgive the ignorance- but are these G.gracilis the same plants as G.graecus and G.elwesii minor?

[mark smyth]

I like the variegated gracilis

[Maggi Young]

The variegated galanthus in pic Galgra3 in post 458 above looks to me not only to be variegated but also to have twists in the leaves suggestive of disease or disorder!
I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole... too risky for virus in my book