Galanthus in the nature...

[Gerard Oud]

Very nice photos Natalia, i do like the Krasnovii very much.I know its hard to keep it growing but i keep trying. I wish i could explore those regions once too.

[Natalia]

Gerard, thank you!
 Can to you still it will be possible to visit these edges. We will hope...

[Hans J]

Dear Natalia ,

many thanks for your really special pictures ...fantastic !!!

Best wishes from Germany
Hans

[ashley]

Thank you Natalia; what a great series of pictures    
It's always fascinating to see these plants in their native habitat. 
Did you see them toward the western end of the Caucasus Mountains (Karachayevo-Cherkessiya region, Карача́ево-Черке́сская Pеспу́блика) or further east? 

The variation in woronowii is wonderful; you show some very fine forms.  I like krasnovii very much too

[Natalia]

Ashley, these kinds Galanthus grow on the western Сaucasus, in Krasnodar territory.

Galanthus woronowii has many variants, one of the valley plant may be very different from other plants in the overall size and spots on the flowers.

[ashley]

Ashley, these kinds Galanthus grow on the western Сaucasus, in Krasnodar territory.

Ah, further west again and presumably easier to visit.  One day perhaps ...

[Natalia]

 

[Thomas Seiler]

Last sunday I had the opportunity to visit with a group of naturalists one of the few places, where Galanthus nivalis is indigenous to South West Germany. It is in the mountainous region of the Suebian Alb in a dry side valley of a contributor of the Danube. The altitude is app. 700 m. There they grow in the shade of decidous trees, mostly beeches. These snowdrops are considered by our botanists to have survived the ice ages there.

[Thomas Seiler]

And here are their companions, growing under the same conditions in leaf litter on jurassic chalk: Leucojum vernum, Gagea lutea, Helleborus foetidus and, without a pic, Corydalis cava:

[Brian Ellis]

I believe that the Beech leaf litter is the best environment for them Thomas

[Paddy Tobin]

Thomas,

How wonderful to be able to visit such an area. It is very beautiful.

Paddy

[Natalia]

Thomas,
 Very interesting, what more diverse forms of spots on the tube.
 2011-03-20_10 - excellent shape(?) Leucojum vernum.

[Thomas Seiler]

Natalia,
2011-03-20_10 shows two flowers of Leucojum vernum fused to one. This does sometimes happen, but I do not think that it is stabel.
Maybe the variations of Leucojum are even more interesting there than those in Galanthus nivalis. Though there were differnet forms as well, from globular to elongated ones, but nothing really spectacular.

[KentGardener]

Thank you for posting the photographs from this woodland Thomas.  It is nice to see the flowers that are growing there.

Here it felt like summer had arrived yesterday!  Any late flowering snowdrops are fading fast.... 

[Natalia]

Thomas, I have just returned from travel to Crimea.
In this trip we with colleagues managed to find population Galanthus plicatus in which meet klamps blossoming accrete fused double flowers - such flowers were at large bulbs, at small bulbs - double flowers absent.