FRITILLARIA 2011

[Lesley Cox]

I really like the F. baskilensis, a name new to me, and the gibbosa is a beautiful form - trying to be a Nomocharis?

How many flowers does it take Janis, for the stenanthera to be a multiflowered form? It looks very "multi" to me, and a lovely shade of pink.

[Janis Ruksans]

I really like the F. baskilensis, a name new to me, and the gibbosa is a beautiful form - trying to be a Nomocharis?

How many flowers does it take Janis, for the stenanthera to be a multiflowered form? It looks very "multi" to me, and a lovely shade of pink.

May be this one could be named as "multiflowered"
Janis

[christian pfalz]

janis, you have an absolutly fantastic bulb collection...
cheers
chris

[Janis Ruksans]

Today all the day cloudy, cold and rainy. So no joy to go out to greenhouses, so only two new frits of today
Fritillaria minima SASA-121
and Fritillaria crassifolia WHIR-183 from Iran
Janis

[Gerry Webster]

Fritillaria thessala

Received as F. gussichiae from 'Rare Plants'. This is my second attempt to obtain true F. gussichiae from this supplier.

[Darren]

This is the first flower on the only survivor from a packet of frit group seed (2005) of 'F. crassifolia kurdica'. Much to my surprise it turned out to be a rather lovely unmarked luminous green. Any views on the ID? I ask because I have also got first flowers on a couple of other pots of seedlings from the same exchange, the same year, and 'F alfredae glaucoviridis' turned out to be acmopetala, 'F pyrenaica' is meleagris....  To be fair - there are numerous individuals still to flower so it is possible that the odd stray seed of more vigorous interlopers has got there first.

[Regelian]

That is a pretty thing, Darren.

Here is a shot of clumping F. meleagris, plus a single alba of the species.  As with most of us, this will seed about in moist conditions.  Clumping seems to be possibly clone specific, but constant moisture certainly has a bit to do with it, possibly summer coolness, as well.  This clump is under an Acer palmatum dissectum.

[wooden shoe]

all beauties,

I'm just starting with Fritillaria and it seems that I'm not the only one having problems with the names. Could someone please identify these:
The first one was sold as Fritillaria pudica which it is not. Anyway 2 out of 4 looked like this while the 2 others were Fritillaria uva-vulpis. As far as I could make out it looks more like Fritillaria glauca but then which is the second one? That one was sold to me by a different supplier under the name Fritillaria glauca 'Goldilocks'?
Thank you Rob

[Lesley Cox]

I really like the F. baskilensis, a name new to me, and the gibbosa is a beautiful form - trying to be a Nomocharis?

How many flowers does it take Janis, for the stenanthera to be a multiflowered form? It looks very "multi" to me, and a lovely shade of pink.

May be this one could be named as "multiflowered"
Janis

Wow! Oh yes, that would do it all right.

[Lesley Cox]

Your first one wooden shoe, is (I think) either collina or aurea. I can never remember without looking it up, which of the two has square shoulders. Before I enlarged it, I thought the second was acmopetala, but no. Not glauca though.

[Gerry Webster]

all beauties,

I'm just starting with Fritillaria and it seems that I'm not the only one having problems with the names. Could someone please identify these:
The first one was sold as Fritillaria pudica which it is not. Anyway 2 out of 4 looked like this while the 2 others were Fritillaria uva-vulpis. As far as I could make out it looks more like Fritillaria glauca but then which is the second one? That one was sold to me by a different supplier under the name Fritillaria glauca 'Goldilocks'?
Thank you Rob

Rob - The first one could be F. aurea, I don't think the  second one is  F. glauca - I'm not sure what it is. To identify frits one needs to see the leaf arrangement on the whole plant & the inside of the flower - stigma & nectaries.

[Janis Ruksans]

all beauties,

I'm just starting with Fritillaria and it seems that I'm not the only one having problems with the names. Could someone please identify these:
The first one was sold as Fritillaria pudica which it is not. Anyway 2 out of 4 looked like this while the 2 others were Fritillaria uva-vulpis. As far as I could make out it looks more like Fritillaria glauca but then which is the second one? That one was sold to me by a different supplier under the name Fritillaria glauca 'Goldilocks'?
Thank you Rob

The first is aurea without doubt. The second - too many with similar flowers, but not glauca. Must to see details.
Janis

[art600]

Fritillaria thessala

Received as F. gussichiae from 'Rare Plants'. This is my second attempt to obtain true F. gussichiae from this supplier.

Gerry

I trust he refunded your money 

[Maggi Young]

Rob, your first is aurea and the second looks to be a yellowish  hermonis.


Not sure what your pale beauty is , Darren, but I like it!

[Gerry Webster]

Fritillaria thessala

Received as F. gussichiae from 'Rare Plants'. This is my second attempt to obtain true F. gussichiae from this supplier.

Gerry
I trust he refunded your money 

Arthur - He  replaced the first misidentified  plant with another which turned out to be F. whittallii - not what I wanted but rather a nice form actually. I haven't yet  had a reply to my latest complaint. It appears that his supplier is either ignorant or careless or both.