Erythronium 2010

[Janis Ruksans]

One more E. sibiricum variant - cv. 'Olya'

[Rodger Whitlock]

Erythronium grandiflorum - first time blooming with me.

Clearly, your specimen received adequate winter chilling. The properly elongated scape is the clue.

I have E. grandiflorum in the garden, originally collected on as seedlings many years ago, but it's very rare for the scapes to elongate even though it's planted in the coldest site I have.

On , E.g. grows on the steep north-facing slope, which, because of its grade gets little, if any, sun in winter and therefore provides adequate winter chilling.

It is said that this stand of E. g. is the lowest altitude of any, but I'm not at all sure if that is true.

[TheOnionMan]

Day was nice and Erythronium flowers aquired usual shape. Here several Erythroniums - in E. sibiricum give attention to variability of design at flower segments base.
Erythronium caucasicum from Georgia
...
Janis

Janis, the Erythronium caucasicum from Georgia is flat out GORGEOUS; I like how the elegant petals are narrow enough (but not too narrow) to clearly show the bright red curved neck of the stem, and the foliage is a knockout too.

[Michael J Campbell]

Erythronium pink beauty

[TheOnionMan]

Erythronium pink beauty

Michael, I think I see a trend here.... I really like those Erythronium where one can clearly see the curved neck of the flower stem that suspends each flower, and in your Pink Beauty, those black-red stems beautifully set off the flowers. Beautiful.

[Janis Ruksans]

Erythronium americanum - I collected it in Cincinnatii, during American Daffodil Society convention and
Erythronium sibiricum LILAC SURPRISE.
JANIS

[Diane Whitehead]

Lovely markings on Lilac Surprise.  The anthers seem odd.
Do they produce pollen?

[Diane Whitehead]

I have a light yellow Erythronium tuolumnense hybrid which
has lost its name.  However, I bought 'Citronella' in 1994, so
probably this is it.

It has not proliferated like some of these hybrids do.  This
year it has produced its first offset, which has one flower.

The main plant has five flowers open and five buds to come.
Its leaves are enormous, as expected, but one is plain and
the other has markings around the rim, which I have never
seen before in erythroniums.  They usually have an all-over
pattern.

(The ruler is 30 cm long.)

[Guff]

Americanum

[Anthony Darby]

Here are two more of my Erythronium sibericum. 'Olya' was attacked by a beastie of some sort between the first and second pic!

[Ed Alverson]

The Erythronium season is winding down here.  E. "Joanna" is one of the later-flowering hybrids.  These photos were taken in the morning so the tepals had not fully reflexed, but you can see the pinkish tinge inherited from (presumably) E. revolutum.

Ed

[Ed Alverson]

Though late in the season, I also still have a few flowers of Erythronium hendersonii.  This species seems to have an especially long flowering season - recall that I posted a photo of my first flowering plant of this species at the end of February.  That gives it a flowering season this year of nearly 7 weeks!  Even the peak of bloom lasted some 3 weeks or more.  The plants are all growing in the same place in the garden, and they were all grown from the same batch of wild-collected seed, so neither site condition or genetic variation across the species range can explain the long flowering season.  This year the season may be a bit longer than usual due to the weather conditions, but E. hendersonii still has a long flowering season compared to the other species I grow.  E. tuolumnense, which started at the same time, was finished a couple of weeks ago.

Ed

[Anthony Darby]

For some fabulous pics of Erythroniums, especially E. sibericum, see the latest bulb log. http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Apr141271250812BULB_LOG__1510.pdf

[Guff]

Picture 1 Americanum bud
Picture 2 Dens-canis that I bought last fall, leaves but no flowers. No signs of the dried out junk bulbs.

[Janis Ruksans]

Picture 1 Americanum bud
Picture 2 Dens-canis that I bought last fall, leaves but no flowers. No signs of the dried out junk bulbs.

It is very normal for dens-canis in first year after replanting not to produce flowewrs.
Janis