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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2011, 12:54:02 PM »
What a wonderful frit Tony!

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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #31 on: March 03, 2011, 01:36:07 PM »
A couple of pictures of a fritillaria from Arthur which he thinks may be a new species

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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #32 on: March 03, 2011, 02:47:20 PM »
Arthur

you must be home? I hope you are pleased with it. A second bulb with a single flower will open in the next couple of days and so I will try for seed
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #33 on: March 03, 2011, 05:41:39 PM »
I will try to post some further shots - think I might have one with 4 flowers.  Have not had luck with seed so far, although I sowed some last year.
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #34 on: March 03, 2011, 05:57:58 PM »
Tony & Arthur - a handsome plant, it would be interesting to know its provenance.
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #35 on: March 03, 2011, 08:37:22 PM »
What a little gem it is. :P
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #36 on: March 03, 2011, 09:53:33 PM »
What a wonderful plant.  As Gerry says, it would be interesting to know something about its provenance.
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #37 on: March 03, 2011, 09:57:13 PM »
It was a conservation effort from Iran where a new road was to be built.
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #38 on: March 03, 2011, 10:07:52 PM »
From the NW?

It really is a beauty Arthur, and well grown Tony.
« Last Edit: March 03, 2011, 10:14:51 PM by ashley »
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #39 on: March 04, 2011, 11:25:02 PM »
It's similar to F. poluninii to my eye - very desirable, whatever it is.

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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2011, 05:06:59 PM »
Hi I am Colin and this is my first post. I live in Staines Middx UK and my main interest is Fritillaria and I though you might like to see some of my Rhinopetalums that are in flower.

Colin

F. ariana
F. gibbosa (1)
F. gibbosa (2)
F. gibbosa (3)
F. karelinii x gibbosa
F. rhinopetalum undecided
F. sp. PULKHAKIM


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« Last Edit: March 06, 2011, 05:43:48 PM by Maggi Young »
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« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2011, 05:21:23 PM »
Welcome Colin, and thanks for a great post.  The first of many we hope. 

Beautiful crystalline quality to the petals.
Are the hybrids your own, and if so do you see much variation? 
And can you tell us any more about the last two?
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #42 on: March 06, 2011, 05:44:44 PM »
A warm welcome to you Colin....super frits.... a  couple of weeks at least ahead of ours in N.E. Scotland!
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #43 on: March 06, 2011, 05:46:39 PM »
Welcome to the forum Colin. A lovely & interesting collection.
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Re: FRITILLARIA 2011
« Reply #44 on: March 06, 2011, 06:12:22 PM »
Yes the rhinopetalum undecided was pollen from a white gibbosa of Kath Dryden’s onto one of my plants which like an idiot I did not keep a record of which one I used. As to variation that is the first flower of only two that germinated.
The karelinii x gibbosa is actually a sibling cross of my own. The parents came to me as seed labelled as karelinii which when they flowered I was not sure about and when Martin Rix was asked about them he said he thought they were a hybrid with gibbosa. As to variation with these there seems to be very little.
The Pulkhakim is the plant that Janis Ruksans brought into cultivation. Mine I think is a seed raised plant as the stem is not as papillose as other plants I have seen.

Colin
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