Galanthus reginae-olgae

[snowdropman]

here is a pic from today from my

Galanthus reginae olgae f. corcyrensis

very late in this year !!!

Hans - mine is even later than yours this year & has not yet opened its flower - but not suprising as we have been a bit short on sunshine 

[Paddy Tobin]

Ha, Ha,  Hans,

So, it was not as natural a photographic setting as I first thought - just as all photographers do!

Paddy

[Hans J]

Paddy ....pssssst 

Chris - I had always only single flowers on my corcyrensis ...today I saw this group
It seems they are not very variably !

[ian mcenery]

Nice shot Hans


Here is my G reg olgae "Cambridge"

[Hans J]

Thank you Ian 

I have read anywhere ( but where ? ) that G.r.o. 'Cambridge' is also a G.coryrensis form ....

Can anybody confirm this ?

[snowdropman]

I have read anywhere ( but where ? ) that G.r.o. 'Cambridge' is also a G.coryrensis form ....

Can anybody confirm this ?

Hans - see page 129 of the 'Snowdrops' book which says that 'Cambridge' was formerly placed in the taxon G. corcyrensis & goes on to say that Kath Dryden originally offered it under this name.

[Hans J]

Chris - yes ...you are right  

I have read this in a older plantlist from K.Dryden !

Thank you
Hans

[Anthony Darby]

I also think Hans' photograph is delightful.

Anthony

[Roma]

Lovely photo ,Hans.  The leaves show up the snowdrops so well.  The first flower on my Galanthus corcyrensis was open on October 23 and I expect to have flowers till the end of January.  Who needs all those different named varieties when one snowdrop can give flowers for such a long period?  I note Aaron Davis does not recognise corcyrensis as a form or sub species of Galanthus reginae-olgae but as a non expert I can not see my snowdrops as fitting either subsp. reginae-olgae or subsp. vernalis. 

[Hans J]

Thank you Anthony and Roma 

For me is G.corcyrensis a form of G.regina olgae ....but not from G.r.o. ssp. vernalis !
The earliest G.r.o. ssp. vernalis I have seen on Sicily near the coast -they have flowerd on end of December /beginning of January ....some KM later in the Mts. the plants flowered in February/March .
I have a lot of G.r.o. ssp. vernalis from different locations ( Calabria,Gargano,Montenegro ) ....all start here in February/March .
I dont understand why the populations from the Taigetos mts. and Corfu are so far away ....and never would found any plants between ....
Before some year I have visit Corfu and I saw this plants on many places ...I do not believe that they are naturalized .....
The plants start there in middle of October ( depending from the altitude)
My G.r.o. from Taigetos starts in normal years in middle of September .....but in this crazy year also later !!!

[art600]

Hans

My reginae-olgae are all late this year - some are only now poking through the soil. 

[Melvyn Jope]

Some images of Galanthus reginae-olgae seen last week in the Taigetos Mountains in the Peloponnese. The first six images are of plants seen in the Langada Pass where they were seen in their usual considerable numbers in ones and twos or small clumps.
The remaining images are at a location on the west of the Taigetos. I am reluctant to say where because when I visited another well known location in the Vyros Gorge the plants had nearly all gone. For those that know the two sites, only a hundred meters apart,the first which used to be recognised by a gateway (the gate was removed a couple of years ago) had less than ten plants still growing in the bracken. The second under the large tree looks very different because the top courses of the stone wall have been removed and just one plant was found. I know they were fine in April as I collected some seed from there but now I can only assume that they are very late(unlikely) or that they have been removed.

[art600]

I like them all, but 3, 5, 9 & 10 stand out as special for me.  

[Maggi Young]

Very sad to hear of natural populations being depleted.  ... I, for one, am content to enjoy the photos

[mark smyth]

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