Galanthus in March 2017

[Rick Goodenough]

Gert, these are stunners. Are they all nivalis? Are they this year's photos? I really like the look of the one in the photo, _2173312.jpg.

Fabulous finds. Rick

[Shauney]

Spotted this curious looking thing today doing exactly the same thing as the double one I posted on here about a week ago. This was found in a different garden and is single. There was 4 bulbs and 3 of them were flowering and all doing the same thing.

[Chad]

Shauney,

I found  a small clump of G.elwesii doing that, but with two ranks of 'petals' on the peduncle.

The bulbs have thrived and flowered every year since but I haven't seen that aberration again on them, or anywhere else until your post.

IF it is a stable character it will be an exciting new breeding line!

Chad.

[Shauney]

Hi Chad,
Do you have a pic of yours? The double one I found the other week was a nivalis as that's all that is growing in that area. This one has plicatus and elwesii in the garden but is more likely to be a cross between nivalis and plicatus because of the green mark. It is short at no more than 5 inches.

Shaun.

[Chad]

Hi Chad,
Do you have a pic of yours?

Shaun.

Sorry, it was a few year ago and I hadn't started taking pictures then.

As I recall they had a normal single flower and ovary, and then two single 'petals' about 1cm apart that were on the outside of the curve of the pedicle.  I don't remember a true spathe [but memory is an unreliable tool!]. 

Chad

[Alan_b]

Spotted this curious looking thing today...

Getting close to becoming the snowdrop version of a hose-in-hose primula.

[Mariette]

Some of the pocs flowering in my garden.

Usually this one has vertical stripes on its inners.

[Mariette]

This one has green tips.

[Mariette]

And this one has green tips and long ears.

[Cephalotus]

This one has green tips.

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Amazing! This is one of my most favourite forms. It simply looks magically.

Today I had some new findings, some I would never expect to find.

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3. This one has its peduncle so thick, that the flowers can't hang normally, but are faced horizontally.


4. My very first pterugiform and some more below.


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7. It was a young flower, not ending its flowering, because I had to open one of those flowers.


8. A monster form


9. A nicely green marked form. Nice to look at.


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11. A white form


12. No comment...


13. One with upstanding flowers.

[Shauney]

It's very close to a hose in hose prim Alan.  And also has a nice mark aswell. Hopefully it sets seed and keeps this characteristic so I can work to achieving it.

[Alan_b]

Some superb finds there, Chris.  I particularly like 1 & 10 but they are all good.  I wonder if 1 will be stable?  Funny how you had not found the inversely poculiform type before and then you found lots of them.

[Tim Harberd]

No 8 looks like an example of fasciation.. a new word to me when MattT used it to describe my Glenorma earlier this year.

Tim DH

[Shauney]

No.8 looks like a bunch of white bananas to me.

[Leena]

Mariette, how very beautiful poculiforms, the middle one is my favourite, but all are special.

Chris, you must be so happy to find all those different forms, congratulations!