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Galanthus id help
« on: March 18, 2010, 01:03:58 PM »
Hi everyone, Myself and my grandmother were moving some of her Galanthus she has labels beside her plants but this one has no label, has anyone any idea ?
thank you in advance.

Evelyn.
« Last Edit: March 18, 2010, 01:10:43 PM by Maggi Young »

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 01:12:16 PM »
Hi Evelyn, welcome to the Forum. Your picture was a bit too big to see clearly so I have re-sized it to 760 pixels wide and reposted it for you.

All I can tell you is that I know it's a snowdrop!! ;) ;D Not much help there, eh?

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 01:13:48 PM »
Hahaha thank you Maggi  ;D

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2010, 01:26:53 PM »
I doubt if anyone can help you with this one.  I think the marks on the outer petals are a bit broader than on a pure Galanthus nivalis. I think I see slight folding on the back of one of the leaves so probably a nivalis x plicatus hybrid.  Other than that I don't see any distinguishing features.   
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2010, 06:43:51 PM »
thanks Alan_b

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2010, 07:17:54 AM »
What about the good old S Arnott?

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2010, 10:24:15 AM »
What about the good old S Arnott?

It looks nothing like 'S. Arnott'.
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2010, 01:52:56 PM »
This is the problem of trying to identify single mark hybrids
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2010, 04:46:45 PM »
What about the good old S Arnott?

It looks nothing like 'S. Arnott'.
Tell me which one then! It definitely looks like a hybrid maybe Magnet
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2010, 06:01:52 PM »
What about the good old S Arnott?

It looks nothing like 'S. Arnott'.
Tell me which one then! It definitely looks like a hybrid maybe Magnet

Oh good grief!! It doesn't look anything like 'Magnet' either, and I'm not sure how to answer your demand for a cultivar name or your insistence that it must be a cultivar without causing offence - so I won't.
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 06:11:37 PM »
Youre right it could be anything Martin, but i feel not offended, just a bit dissapointed when one says it looks "nothing" like that, without proposing other possibillitys.

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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2010, 06:15:41 PM »
Youre right it could be anything Martin, but i feel not offended, just a bit dissapointed when one says it looks "nothing" like that, without proposing other possibillitys.

Because, like Alan, I don't think there are other possibilities, and I can't just go trying to put a name on something I don't have any reason to believe has a name.
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2010, 06:22:45 PM »
And I said that it looks nothing like S Arnott because it looks nothing like S. Arnott. Sorry if that sounded impolite to you, but it's not an English phrase that is usually considered very rude.
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2010, 06:29:25 PM »
one problem is your photo shows a flower trapped behind all those leaves. Can you post a new photo?
« Last Edit: March 19, 2010, 06:48:09 PM by mark smyth »
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Re: Galanthus id help
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2010, 06:44:46 PM »
Gerard one problem is your photo shows a flower trapped behind all those leaves. Can you post a new photo?

It was Evelyn who posted the 'mystery' snowdrop. 

It would be helpful Evelyn if you could post both a close-up of the flower (with mark) anf also the arrangement of the leaves.
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