FRITILLARIA 2011

[Lesley Cox]

They do indeed. I wish my own weeds were the background for such magnificent plants.

[Armin]

Zhirair,

if you leave your frits unattended don't you get troubles with lily beetles (Lilioceris lilii)?
Here, any frits I grow are magnets for lily beetles
Every day close inspection is required...

[Natalia]

Magnificent Fritillaria!
 Allow also to me to bring the contribution to gallery of photos Fritillaria.

[Boyed]

Zhirair,

if you leave your frits unattended don't you get troubles with lily beetles (Lilioceris lilii)?
Here, any frits I grow are magnets for lily beetles
Every day close inspection is required...

You're right Armin,

As I see lily beetles are quite a serious problem. I inspected them in my lilies in the country house, by they didn't attack frits so far. Anyway,  I will take a pesticide with me in my next visit.

[Armin]

pesticides - yes, sometimes a 'must'

[Pascal B]

Someone any idea about this Frit from China? About 20 cm tall, a second flowering one has much less defined red in the flower, both single flowered.

[olegKon]

We are still having the frit season: Fritillaria pallidiflora (sun-lit)

[ranunculus]

Image captured in May 2011 in a tiny colony of only two plants in a rocky clearing at the top of the cable car at Fuente De in the Picos de Europa national park in northern Spain.

Should you wish to see a greatly enlarged image then please visit AlpenPix at the following link:-

URL: http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=AlpenPix&id=3151

[Gerdk]

What an extraordinary plant - in flower size and colour!

Gerd

[art600]

On my recent trip to Turkey, I saw for the first time Fritillaria sororum.  

How this was discovered in the first place amazes me - the plants are on a steep hillside, in scrubby forest, some distance from the road.

[art600]

The season Turkey this year was very difficult.  People living in the South of England may have wondered where all the rain had gone - we found it in Turkey.

Going later than any previous trips, I had expected that some Frits might have been over, but in the case of the Nemrut Dag crater above Tatvan, they had hardly started.  On prevous trips, where the snow was still being cleared, Fritillaria minuta was in profusion and Pulsatilla albana ssp. armena was a joy to see.  This year the Pulsatilla was only just emerging and photographs of flowers were impossible.  Fritillaria minuta was in very small numbers at the bottom of the crater.

1.  View of Nemrut Dag crater
2.  Fritillaria minuta
3.  Could this be Fritillaria pinardii?

[Gerry Webster]

On my recent trip to Turkey, I saw for the first time Fritillaria sororum. 

How this was discovered in the first place amazes me - the plants are on a steep hillside, in scrubby forest some distance, from the road.

Arthur - very interesting to see this in the wild. In their  account of the new species in the New Plantsman (5, 1998) the Perssons note that the specific epithet commemorates two sisters who bequeathed half of their estate to Göteborg Botanic Garden.  A nice way to be remembered.   

[Arda Takan]

Wow great shots Arthur.
I'm lucky to live in Turkey but unlucky not to see these beauties with my own eyes.

[Susan Band]

Pascal, just noticed your Frit, try Frit tiapienses. It varies a lot but a lot came in from china originally
Susan
Nice Frits Arthur

[Pascal B]

Hi Susan, thanx very much, I had given up hope to get a name for it! Besides your pix I also found pix on a Chinese site that showed the inside of the flower confirming its ID which I wouldn't have found without a name.....: http://www.especies.ac.cn/pages/1228
The Chinese website is an interesting one for other plants as well! Using the folder structure interesting pictures of other genera within Liliaceae can also be found on that site.