Fritillaria 2012

[art600]

Ron

That is one of MY favourite frits 

[ronm]

Just my luck!

[Gerry Webster]

A few frits in the bulb house today

The first two I need help with identification.

The third is Fritillaria strausii
The fourth is Fritillaria zagrica
and the last is Fritillaria crassifolia

No 1. - probably F. elwesii; yes, if it has a very fat stigma.
No 2. - Possibly F. minuta.

[PeterT]

A couple of frits out here;
F yumanensis sent to me by a kind person in Singapore, slightly different to the ones around -that presumably origionate from Chen Yi? I believe that it is widely cultivated (for food?) in China.
and Fritilaria ariana

[Gerry Webster]

A couple of frits out here;
F yumanensis sent to me by a kind person in Singapore, slightly different to the ones around -that presumably origionate from Chen Yi? I believe that it is widely cultivated (for food?) in China.
and Fritilaria ariana

F. yuminensis  is cultivated in China for medicinal use. See:

www.kew.org/science/ecbot/papers/leon2009fritillaria.pdf

[PeterT]

Thanks Gerry, It seems that there are various forms too. I will try to get a better picture of the individual flowers when the sun is not so bright.

[Maggi Young]

F. yuminensis  is one of the later ones here. Sniff it , Peter, it has a lovely scent.

[PeterT]

Thanks, I will Maggie.

[ronm]

F.pudica.
A couple of the earlier forms flowering here today. Some of the other forms are just poking through or just coming into bud.
Most of my forms are of the yellow colour ( although I have 'wild seedlings' that I am hopeful of). Does anyone grow any of the deep orange or brown forms, please? I dont mean those that turn to these colours as they age, as they all seem to do that, but those that start out darker.
Form 1.

[ronm]

Form 2.

[arisaema]

Fritillaria yuminensis has been up in the garden since December, probably fooled by the mild and wet weather, but it fortunately doesn't look like the January cold (-16C) did any harm to them. My bulbs are from the nursery of  Duan Xian-Zhen, through fellow forumist Yijia Wang, I think that's where Catch and Chen Yi sourced their bulbs in the past as well.

[Tony Willis]

Some very nice frits at the moment.

My only flowering one today

Fritillaria crassifolia

[ronm]

That's a little beauty Tony.

[Tony Willis]

thanks Ron.

I collected it in 1993 and still only one!

Interesting that it flowered a full month later in 2011 and a further month later in 2010-middle of April

[ronm]

I thought it was an unusual one Tony, .  I am not suprised that it caught your eye, . Was it collected at a particularly high altitude? It is unusual as you say for them to move that much isn't it? I gather that you've had no luck with selfing for seed either? Its not unusual for  some forms to be very slow though. Good luck for the future with it

Edit - Oops! For some reason I read 1993 and brain registered 2003! Still would be a long enough time for adjustment and multiplication, but 18+ years !! How strange ......