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Quote from: ronm on March 09, 2012, 08:09:19 PMWhy is it C. crewei 'Bergamo' Janis? I have many friends in Bergamo Italy and would love to give a pot full of this to them as a gift?I got it from late Jim Archibald by his wish - so I can't check it's identity. Locality name confuses me, too, but such was label.Janis
Why is it C. crewei 'Bergamo' Janis? I have many friends in Bergamo Italy and would love to give a pot full of this to them as a gift?
Quote from: Janis Ruksans on March 09, 2012, 08:11:19 PMQuote from: ronm on March 09, 2012, 08:09:19 PMWhy is it C. crewei 'Bergamo' Janis? I have many friends in Bergamo Italy and would love to give a pot full of this to them as a gift?I got it from late Jim Archibald by his wish - so I can't check it's identity. Locality name confuses me, too, but such was label.JanisIs it possible it refers to Bergama near the ancient city of Pergamon?
Quote from: Sinchets on March 12, 2012, 05:20:56 PMQuote from: Janis Ruksans on March 09, 2012, 08:11:19 PMQuote from: ronm on March 09, 2012, 08:09:19 PMWhy is it C. crewei 'Bergamo' Janis? I have many friends in Bergamo Italy and would love to give a pot full of this to them as a gift?I got it from late Jim Archibald by his wish - so I can't check it's identity. Locality name confuses me, too, but such was label.JanisIs it possible it refers to Bergama near the ancient city of Pergamon?Many thanks Simon, it looks perfect. The label was hand-written so it is possible that I misread it and "Bargamo" sounded for me more common, although I didn't think about Italy, of course.Janis
If we will look on map of Turkey we will see N of Manavgat (E of Antalya) where is Akseki and Crocus biflorus isauricus (generally with lighter or darker blue ground color of petals, anthers sometimes with blackish connective, but many only yellow) growing around it. Further to East - N of Alanya it is replaced by C. roseoviolaceus (very deep blue) making some borderline between isauricus and this one. Still further to East grows this one (my numbers RUDA-008, RUDA-020,JJVV-040) - there are no one blue, only whites mostly with distinctly black anthers or connective, rarely anthers is yellow. It is something close to isauricus but general flower color, anthers and geographical separation - force me to think that it is different. By EP publications it is regarded as isauricus aff. but I think that it will be described by him as new one very soon.Janis