Crocus September 2010

[Andrew]

Autumn has arrived in East Anglia.



C. vallicola

[Maggi Young]

How lovely, Andrew - well, the C. vallicola is, not the fact that Autumn is arrived .

Funnily enough, we are at the same stage up here in Aberdeen too... see today's Bulb Log
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2010Sep011283348440BULB_LOG__3510.pdf

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looking very healthy Andrew !!

[tonyg]

Autumn has arrived in East Anglia.

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C. vallicola

Here too - the first Crocus is C vallicola.

[Tony Willis]

my first open today

Crocus cancellatus

[I.S.]

  Tony, very nice Cancellatus! I am thinking which subsp. it might be!

[Tony Willis]

Ibrahim

I think it is mazziaricus,thanks for the correction.

[I.S.]

 Tony, I am not sure for mazziaricus. It looks more like damascenus to me!

[Maggi Young]

 It seems the bract and bracteole are the tips for ID  in this case....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2010Mar281269807373Crocus_cancellatus_mazziaricus.pdf

[Luc Gilgemyn]

my first open today

Crocus cancellatus

Great start of the season Tony !

[Tony Willis]

I have been and looked at its bits and only the bract is showing which makes it ssp damascenus. I was going by its distribution in 'The Crocus' from which it would appear to be mazziaricus. Personally I find these minor differences and divisions quite meaningless.

[Armin]

Great start into September.
Both, C. vallicola and C. cancellatus are very beautiful.
Still struggling with a glut of slugs in my garden after the last moist weeks.

[Janis Ruksans]

With me first bud of speciosus shows color for some days and today suddenly came out and started to bloom 3 pots with various suworovianus. As I wrote earlier all buds of scharojanii came out and dried without opening, I suppose (hope) due very hot weather (around +30 C).
Returning to Crocus cancellatus I suppose that differences between subsp. in flowers is really very small, only subsp. pamphylicus can be easy distinguishable by white anthers and at present I more and more think that subsp. lycius must be regarded at species range, not as subspecies. It has well separated areal and can't be misidentified by color, size and position of stigma. Although I still regard it as subspecies of cancellatus in my coming book but each book can show only knowledge at writing time.
Janis

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Here too was autumn arrived in Belgium with C. gilanicus.
Not so spectaculair, but corms are grown form seeds from our friend Jim Archibald!
Hendrik

[kiwi]

First time flowering in my collection.