New Crocus species described.... one named for Forumist Otto Fauser

[I.S.]

  I could identify this crocus very easly like that; A nubigena with hittiticus anthers and the strips on creamy back ground.

Best Wishes....
ibrahim

[Otto Fauser]

Ibrahim , thank you for sharing your photos of flowers, anthers and corms of 'my' Crocus  =C. fauseri  taken in the locus classicus .
  I am honoured and thrilled to have a new Crocus named after me .
                 Otto.

[Maggi Young]

Ibrahim , thank you for sharing your photos of flowers, anthers and corms of 'my' Crocus  =C. fauseri  taken in the locus classicus .
  I am honoured and thrilled to have a new Crocus named after me .
                 Otto.

Your crocus namesake is a beauty, Otto. Ibrahim's photos are super. It is a richly deserved honour and Ian and I are more than delighted for you.
I hope Crocus fauseri continues a long an happy life on its Turkish hillside.

[I.S.]

  Otto,
 My best selectios for your name, that it will continue by corms are below by the photo numbers.
-fauseri (on the back page)
-00
-09-10
-11

 Maggi,
 I have seen this crocus with big quantity in the wild so there will be no danger for this beauty at the near future!
 

[Maggi Young]

I'm merging the C. fauseri posts here 

[Tony Willis]

Very nice pictures Ibrahim,I would be interested to know the general area where it grows and from somebody who has read the publication what distinguishes it from Crocus biflorus isauricus nubigena

 (sorry meant to type nubigena,mental block I had just been looking at some isauricus in flower)

[Janis Ruksans]

Very nice pictures Ibrahim,I would be interested to know the general area where it grows and from somebody who has read the publication what distinguishes it from Crocus biflorus issauricus

I can't tell at present how to separate fauseri from nubigena without laboratory  and if you have plant without origin, but isauricus never has completely dark anthers, in best case only connective is blackish and many (in some localities - most) are with pure yellow anthers. Style branches in isauricus are glabrous, in nubigena densely papillose, in fauseri according Pasche - papillose to scabrid. On Ibrahim's picture they are papillose. Seem that basal lobes on both (nubigena and fauseri) are long, in isauricus short.Later will check my herbariums - how looks style branches on my nubigena comparing with Ibrahim's picture.
Janis

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely crocus and named for a most lovely man whom I'm privileged to call my friend. I'm delighted for you Otto.

[Otto Fauser]

Thank you Lesley , I,m also privileged to call you my dear friend , a lovely lady I have had the pleasure to have known for 30 years .
  Did not imagine that 'my' Crocus would cause so much interest .

                                   Otto.

[Ezeiza]

Your crocus is a well deserved honor to someone who has excelled as a bulb specialist and as a much appreciated person.  Simple as that.

[Janis Ruksans]

The second new Crocus beydaglarensis I pictured last spring in its locus classicus after very rainy night, early and cloudy morning. On my files I listed it as "strange nubigena/crewei aff. crocus". Two plants had blackish anthers. So now it got name.
Janis

[I.S.]

  I have only two selected photos for this second new crocus fron same location Just few days after from Janis. Some of them were like the photos of Janis. My selection was just these two dark samles. It is almost imposible to say these are the same specımen! But I am sure that was the same location.

Crocus beydaglarensis

[Maggi Young]

Please see this new thread for photos from Janis and Ibrahim's trip to see more of the delightful Crocus fauseri, in the wild...

http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8720.0