Colour forms Corydalis solida

[Natalia]

Looks like all insects they want without any problems to get a delicious nectar! I only saw ants

Hoy, I just let Corydalis selfsow in the garden, although the seeds of interesting plants sow individually in containers.
Corydalis solida_part_2_6 - grew up in a garden plant from open pollination Corydalis.

Corydalis yellow1 - maybe it Corydalis nobilis, is a rhizome Corydalis growing in Siberia, Altai, and in some areas of China.

Earlier I collected only seeds, but last years because of a fire the first place with Corydalis has strongly suffered. Half presented at the photos of plants died.Through other locations planned in the coming years to pave a new road and the plants will not survive. Therefore I collect tubers of interesting forms.

I think what easier to exchange seeds though can there will be a possibility transfer tubers.

Yesterday it was not possible to send last photos. Here they.

[Natalia]

Last photos

Corydalis solida_part_3_24 - From the population which plants have very high factor of reproduction - in clamp 5-9 tubers.

[Hoy]

Corydalis yellow1 - maybe it Corydalis nobilis, is a rhizome Corydalis growing in Siberia, Altai, and in some areas of China.
Natalia, I thought of C. nobilis, but it is very different from other C. nobilis I have had. It also grow in another way.

Earlier I collected only seeds, but last years because of a fire the first place with Corydalis has strongly suffered. Half presented at the photos of plants died.Through other locations planned in the coming years to pave a new road and the plants will not survive. Therefore I collect tubers of interesting forms.
Sorry to hear about the fire, was this the devastating wildfire we heard about, it lasted several days?

I think what easier to exchange seeds though can there will be a possibility transfer tubers.
Whatever you like!

Yesterday it was not possible to send last photos. Here they.
I like these corydalis. They are sweet!

[Natalia]

Hoy, the forum is a renowned expert on Corydalis - Janis Rukshans. It is safer to just ask him for help in determining your Corydalis yellow1.

 No, it was a wildfire in the spring of 2008. In the spring when the snow has melted and the earth dried. In that place there were many fallen trees, branches and old grass... Burned about 5 hours, but Corydalis died ...

 Well, will decide by the summer.

 

[Carlo]

Fantastic Natalia! The cultivated forms show quite a range of color so it was only natural that the wild forms show the possibilities....

[gote]

An impressive collection Natalie.
Some are very beautiful.
Especially ths light blues.
You are very lucky to have such variation in your forests.
I hope you know that Corydalis solida must be sown immediately.
Seed have very short shelf life.
Thank you for your effort
Göte

[gote]

I agree Hoy. In my place it is bumble bees that make these holes.
The yellow one is not nobilis. It gives the impression of an annual but I have never seen it before.
Cheers
göte

[Natalia]

Thank you!
 Our forests have great potential on the forms of plants. And my photos just confirm this.

 I know how to store seeds of Corydalis - moist substrate, for example, in vermiculite.

As it is interesting! Apertures are done by bumblebees.
In my garden I did not observe such apertures though many bumblebees there fly.They pollinate Corydalis, instead of drink nectar without having made the necessary work.

[cohan]

We have no ants  in our garden.... we have watched the bees make the apertures here to reach the nectar but I expect ants can be clever this way too!

no ants! i can only (barely) dream of such a situation!!!! they don't really bother the plants, but they eat our houses or anything made of wood....

natalia, all the colours are wonderful! another species i am lusting for, here there is only yellow C aurea...

[Gerdk]

no ants! i can only (barely) dream of such a situation!!!! they don't really bother the plants, but they eat our houses or anything made of wood....

Cohan,
At first I had the opinion that you confused ants with termites - but after googling
I learned that there are wood destroying ants in colder climates also.
Always something new to learn!

Gerd

[Hoy]

We have wood-destroying ants here but they only are problematic if the wood already has started to rot. It's a lot of other wood-destroying beetle larvae too and they are worse.

[maggiepie]

Cohan, I can send you ants, LOTS of them.
I have what I think are carpenter ants, they are big black ants more than half an inch long.
The new ones arrive in spring, fly in, drop their wings and make straight for any potplant.
If you put the pots in a saucer with gravel and water to keep them out, they find a way to drop in from the top and dig their way down.
They eat the roots of my clematis babies.
Grrrrrr
These ants are weird, they don't seem to have a communal nest. Most I have seen is 3 in one pot.
They also love to live in and under the cedar mulch.
You are welcome to them, plus all the other ants I have.

[Hoy]

You can't remove all your ants, maggiepie, they do some beneficial work too!

[Lesley Cox]

they don't really bother the plants, but they eat our houses or anything made of wood....

Well that's OK so long as they leave the plants alone.

[Hoy]

they don't really bother the plants, but they eat our houses or anything made of wood....

Well that's OK so long as they leave the plants alone.

I wish the slugs did likewise! That's one of the few reasons I  enjoy the cold weather: No slugs