Colchicum 2010

[Hans A.]

As I did not find an actual topic I start a new one for this year.
Here the first Colchicums are in flower:
Cochicum kesselringii and a promising bud on Colchicum luteum x kesselringii.

[Otto Fauser]

Hans , the colour combination of your Colch. luteum x kesselringii is stunning - is it your own cross or is this hybrid available commercially ?Certainly not in Australia .

           Otto.

[Hristo]

Hans, superb specimens, did you grow these from JJA seed?

[Maggi Young]

Otto, I know the cross has been collected in the wild in Tajikistan by Arnis Seisums but the plant is seldom if ever available commercially.
Ian re-made the cross from the species to obtain our bulbs........

[Hans A.]

Congratulation, the remade cross is superb - are there differences in the plants of this cross?

Otto, Chris - both plants I had received from a good friend - maybe the hybrid came originally from Janis - think he offered different clones of this cross some years ago.

[Maggi Young]

Hans, the cross results are much the same; little or no variation

[Hans A.]

Thanks Maggi - have checked PC - he seems to have two different forms?/clones (both out of stock) - Janis and Jeanne.

[Diane Clement]

Thanks Maggi - have checked PC - he seems to have two different forms?/clones (both out of stock) - Janis and Jeanne. 

I've had different clones, they have variation in the width of the stripes.  I haven't found them very easy to keep going.

[dominique]

Nice hybrid indeed
Here two Merendera (so visible at the tube) and Colchicum hungaricum Velebit Star

[mark smyth]

Hans I like your kesselringii. Mine flower with their leaves advanced

[Ragged Robin]

Dominique, your Colchicum hungaricum Velebit Star photos 1 & 2 look as if they are the same potfuls but the light makes each look very different in colour....which is the true one or are they different?  You grow some amazing plants 

[Janis Ruksans]

Otto, I know the cross has been collected in the wild in Tajikistan by Arnis Seisums but the plant is seldom if ever available commercially.
Ian re-made the cross from the species to obtain our bulbs........

It was once or twice in my catalogue and at least once in PC catalogue. It could be species C. albertii. I'm attaching scan from Karin Persson's "Nomenclatural synopsis of the genus Colchicum". This hybrid or species is fertile and well set seeds. Arnis selected 3 clones (slightly different) and one of them named 'Janis' for my 50th birthday.
Janis

[mark smyth]

Could this be C. hungaricum? It's taller than my others with longer leaves also

[LucS]

Could this be C. hungaricum? It's taller than my others with longer leaves also

Looks like the cv. Velebit Star to me  (white flowers, black anthers)

[mark smyth]

Thanks Luc. Does that mean what I have as hungaricum Album is Velebit Star?