Fritillaria 2012

[Sinchets]

Thanks for the link- I'd lost those pics when a hard drive died!!

[ronm]

 . Thanks for posting them initially!
Glad it worked out for you too, 

[art600]

Lovely pictures Arthur. Was the F. michailovskyi on the same trip? same area?

The michailovskyi was from a site probably 100 miles from the crassifolia kurdica.

[art600]

A few frits in the bulb house today

The first two I need help with identification.

It has been suggested that 9647 could be Frit elwesii - not aware this grows in Iran.  It does not have a fused stigma so cannot be assyriaca.

9615 does have a fused, club shaped stigma, and is assyriaca.  

[ronm]

  Very good Art. Any up to date pics of them? Are they ones you collected? Fascinating, and just goes to show how hard photo I'D'ing is!.
Thanks for the info on the crassifolia etc.

[Lesley Cox]

Three pictures which have nothing to do with 2012. They are in response to a PM sent to me by ronm.

The middle one is (so far as I am aware,) a seedling from the first, but possibly the other parent being the third. The more I look at them the less likely I think that is. But the second is a first flower in a pot of seedlings labelled as michailovskyi and I can't think of what else it could be. Any suggestions would be welcome.

[ronm]

I wouldn't be concerned by the flaring flower Lesley. A lot of mine, seed raised and bought as bulbs, do this. Some remain tight as well.

[Alex]

F. pluriflora today.

Alex

[ronm]

Oh yes Alex, well grown!! . 

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Ron, I'll be interested to see what comes in the pot this year. They should have been repotted of course but there's been too much else to get everything done. Already a lot of bulbs are well rooted, probably due to the damp summer we've had.

[ronm]

In a way I hope you didn't manage to repot it Lesley, as I see there is another in the same pot that was about to flower. It would be most interesting to see the two together. Thanks again for taking the trouble to check it out.

[Lesley Cox]

It must have flowered all right but I've no recollection of what it was like. Will go out today and repot the lot. (Quite underground now here of course but very likely starting to root.)

[Peppa]

F. pluriflora today.

Alex

Very pretty!

[ronm]

F.carica.

Flower opened yesterday. Another very variable species. This one has the nice orange edges to the yellow petals. A little different to many which are quite uniform in (various ) shade (s).

[ronm]

F.pinardii.

I bought this as a very small bulb at the Frit Group AGM in autumn last year. The bulb was so tiny I didn't expect a flower this year. I didn't (stupidly!) get the name of the person who sold me it, ( I like entire records for my Frit's). The packet was labelled as F. whittallii alpina. To my knowledge there is no such thing, but I bought out of curiosity. Well as you can see its flowered and is a pale flowered F. pinardii. Which is fine for me, (new genes, . I wonder if anyone knows my vendors name. He was selling his plants next to Choice Landscapes, and was local to the Loughborough venue. Please PM me if you can identify him. I stress I am very pleased with the plant, . Also, does anyone know how this plant could have received this F.w.alpina name please. I've searched high and low and can find no reference to it anywhere. Closest I have got is that F.alpina is a synonym of F. pinardii pinardii. Pretty close but where did the whittallii bit come in?