Galanthus March 2008

[mark smyth]

Alan your bug looks like a millipede

[mark smyth]

plicatus

[Gerhard Raschun]

Yesterday I have visited the North of Italy to collect Allium ursinum ( for cooking !).

In the same area there are a lot of Galanthus.So I have took a look for unusual Galanthus, and I have found one ! 

The coloure on the pict isn`t correct, the ovarium is a little bit more yellow, the inside of the calyx (right word ?) is completly orange.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Alan,

your long and small animal lives from dead material. No problem for healthy bulbs. But they go in to small caves of wood, fruits and so on. So you can find them also in bulbs.

Hagen

[Gerhard Raschun]

In our area there are only G. nivalis.I`ll try to make picts of the inside of the calyx .I`ll post it....

Is there anybody wo can show a pict of G.nivalis 'blonde inge'  ?

best Gerhard

[Hagen Engelmann]

A morning view of BLONDE INGE

[Hagen Engelmann]

and here is the picture

[Anthony Darby]

Ah ha. Lovely pics showing off the distinct nature of this. I've not seen this one in the flesh.

[Paddy Tobin]

Two Galanthus plicatus hybrids were given to me yesterday. To date they have not been named though they have been passed around under a "pet" name which I won't continue here. Please have a look at them and if you think they bear resemblance to any hybrid or cultivar already in circulation let me know.

Please forgive the poor state of the flowers. I picked these up on Saturday and had them in the car until this morning so they are the worse for wear.

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I'll wait until next year to give an opinion

I was very surprised tonight after work to see three Galanthus in flower. Two elwesii and one plicatus. The sun was too low to takes photos of two of them. This is the plicatus.

[stellan]

I don't like garden plants so here are some wild Galanthus from Iran... The photos are from two different places. First is at 2000 m and the second at 1000 m. Both places are at the west slopes down to Caspian Sea...

/Stellan
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[Brian Ellis]

Hello Stellan, I like garden plants, but even more than that I like to see them in a wild situation, so thank you very much for posting these pictures, keep them coming, we do enjoy your postings as not all of us are able to get out into the wild to see things.  Thankyou

[Anthony Darby]

I have been moving some snowdrops and finding lots of bugs like this one amongst the bulbs.  Some of the bulbs look a bit damaged, although nothing too bad.  Does anyone know what this is?  The grid pattern is about 15mm square so the creepy crawly must be about 20mm long.

Just seen this. Looks like a millipede (if it has two pairs of legs/segment). Perhaps the Spotted Snake millipede (Blaniulus guttulatus)? It is said to be a pest of potatoes.

[Gerdk]

Stellan,
Did you find some Galanthus (transcaucasicus I believe) with much smaller leaves? I was shown plants from Mazanderan, 9 km SE of Alibad, 400 m, under trees, which had a quite different shape.

Gerd

[Alan_b]

I have been moving some snowdrops and finding lots of bugs like this one amongst the bulbs.  Some of the bulbs look a bit damaged, although nothing too bad.  Does anyone know what this is?  The grid pattern is about 15mm square so the creepy crawly must be about 20mm long.

Just seen this. Looks like a millipede (if it has two pairs of legs/segment). Perhaps the Spotted Snake millipede (Blaniulus guttulatus)? It is said to be a pest of potatoes.

I shrank the photo to post it but zooming in on the original it is clear there ARE two pairs of legs per segment.  But no potatoes in the vicinity.

At this time of year the outermost scales of the bulb are dying, perhaps prone to rot in wet conditions?  So is something that eats rotting vegetable matter actually good for the bulb?