Eranthis 2011

[YT]

Tatsuo,

Wow!!  That is gorgeous.  Now you just need to set seed on it, grow them on, and start selling them to people here on the forums.  You could finance your plant habit I think? 

Paul T, that's great idea! ... and sorry for late reply

Tatsuo - that is a lovely flower.   

John, thanks. Now I'm waiting seed ripening

[Gunilla]

E. Schlyter's Orange with yellow E. hyemalis in the middle.  It looks more orange to my eyes but the difference is really not that big.

[Janis Ruksans]

One more picture of hyemalis Flore Plena, in background Aurantiaca.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

I just noted that 1st year seedlings in otherwise quite similar looking white flowering species (both are not far neighbours in nature) - pinnatifida and stellata looks very different.
Janis

[WimB]

E. Schlyter's Orange with yellow E. hyemalis in the middle.  It looks more orange to my eyes but the difference is really not that big.

Thanks for showing, Gunilla. There's a difference but it's not very big.

[Janis Ruksans]

I long searched without success why genus Eranthis was splitted in two - Eranthis and Shibatheranthis. When I decided to make pictures about plant development from seeds, I found the difference. Although Eranthis in old (wide) sense belongs to Dicotyledons (they have two seedleafs) such are only true Eranthis - see the picture below. Shibatheranthis in evolution lost one seedleaf, and regardless of belonging to Dicotyledons has only one seedleaf (see my previous entry). Nice to learn something new.
Janis

[Gail]

Really interesting Janis - thank you.

[udo]

a interess seed-pot from Eranthis longistipitata

[pehe]

I just noted that 1st year seedlings in otherwise quite similar looking white flowering species (both are not far neighbours in nature) - pinnatifida and stellata looks very different.
Janis

Janis, my pinnatifida seed harvest was not as good as yours last year. I got only two seeds!
One has germinated (pic 1), but it looks different than yours. It looks more than stellata, but I am sure it is pinnatifida (pic2).
By the way, note that two of them has 2 flowers on one stem.

Poul

[pehe]

Dirk, your longistipitata seed pod look promising. The seed pods of my pinnatifida looks good too, so hopefully I can send you some seeds later.
Let us cross fingers for a good seed harvest!

Poul

[Janis Ruksans]

I just noted that 1st year seedlings in otherwise quite similar looking white flowering species (both are not far neighbours in nature) - pinnatifida and stellata looks very different.
Janis

Janis, my pinnatifida seed harvest was not as good as yours last year. I got only two seeds!
One has germinated (pic 1), but it looks different than yours. It looks more than stellata, but I am sure it is pinnatifida (pic2).
By the way, note that two of them has 2 flowers on one stem.

Poul

Yours flowers of course are as in pinnatifida. May be my observations are wrong, I noted that for first years, but I don't think that I mixed labels of seedlings. Will check next year again.
Janis