Scilla 2011

[Hans J]

Muchos Gracias !

[Kirsten]

Few more scillas
Scilla gortganica WHIR-093

Hello Janis
What color is Scilla gorganicain generally? The WHIR-093 form is light blue. I have a white form, see picture posted on 24 February, which I have from Gothenburg Botanical Garden. I also think to remember that you for some years ago had a picture of a white S. gorganica on the cover of your catalog.

 Edit by maggi: see Kirsten's photos here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6583.msg188670#msg188670

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more scillas
Scilla gortganica WHIR-093

Hello Janis
What color is Scilla gorganicain generally? The WHIR-093 form is light blue. I have a white form, see picture posted on 24 February, which I have from Gothenburg Botanical Garden. I also think to remember that you for some years ago had a picture of a white S. gorganica on the cover of your catalog.

All plants collected by me in Iran are with light bluish flowers. I suppose that usually they are blue, such I saw in Jim's (?) collection, too. White stock I originally got from one botanical garden and multiplied by base cutting. In season when I offered it (and showed on my catalogue front cover) all bulbs completely were eaten by rodents in bulb shed. No one left! But remained a lot of seeds which now reached "one year before blooming" stage. As then I had only white form, I hope that at least some seedlings will be white. At least seedlings of isolated grown Scilla rosenii Alba are all 100% white. Hope the same with gorganica. Yours white is fantastic! More compact then I had, but may be growing conditions are different. On front cover was picture from small bulb, much more compact than normally it is.
Janis

[Tiggrx]

I planted this one bulb of Scilla lilio-hyacinthus 'Albus' a number of years ago and it has never increased. However, it has flowered annually and survived neglect and being overgrown with weeds. One of my tasks for this spring is to clear away some of it's competititors to see if it will produce some offspring. I also grow the standard blue form but while that has produced some offsets I haven't had a flower from it in the last 3 years.

[Gunilla]

Scilla bifolia self seeds a lot but I like it anyway. I often discover some flowers that look different from the rest, maybe crosses with chionodoxa?
Scilla rosenii has opened it's buds. I hope it will self seed all over   

Scilla bifolia pink and blue
Scilla bifolia white
Seedlings
Scilla rosenii

[ArnoldT]

Here's a multi-scaped Scilla peruviana.  Is this usual?

[bulborum]

Here Yes

but the next scape's are much smaller

Roland

[ArnoldT]

Thanks, Roland.

[Hoy]

 I bought these as Scilla rosenii some years ago. Can anybody confirm the name or it is something else?

[Gail]

Looks like what I have as Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica

There is a picture of Scilla rosenii in one of Ian's bulb logs;
http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/260406/log.html

[Hoy]

Take a look at the stamens, they are not like the Puschkinia!

[Gunilla]

Hoy, it looks like Scilla mischtschenkoana.

[Janis Ruksans]

I bought these as Scilla rosenii some years ago. Can anybody confirm the name or it is something else?

It is Puschkinia scilloides. May be Scilla mischtschenkoana (tubergeniana). Sorry for late reply, only today returned from Chios and Samos Islands.
Janis

[Lori S.]

Doesn't Puschkinia have a fused ring of stamens in the center, as in the photo below (Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica, or so I believe it to be)?   (I would love to know if this is a reliable characteristic or not for distinguishing  Puschkinia and Chionodoxa.)

Trond's plants don't appear to have this.  To the inexpert eye (i.e. mine  ), they do look like a bluish and slightly lankier stemmed form of S.mischtschenkoana than what I have.

[Hoy]

Seems the jury is still out! At the moment I think I place my money on S mischtschenkoana