Crocus - Seed Photos

[WimB]

Are those pictures made from seeds sent to seed-exchange or they are from your own plants?
Janis

Janis,

they were from seeds sent to the exchange.

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis,

they were from seeds sent to the exchange.

May be this is reason why seeds of some species from various sources looks different. Quite often plants grown from seed exchange seeds turns incorrectly named. Usually Crocus seeds are quite uniform and their shape, size, colour, surface structure are quite characteristic to species.
Janis

[WimB]

May be this is reason why seeds of some species from various sources looks different. Quite often plants grown from seed exchange seeds turns incorrectly named. Usually Crocus seeds are quite uniform and their shape, size, colour, surface structure are quite characteristic to species.
Janis

That is of course a possibility, Janis. Those with varying seeds within the same species were not included in the pictures since I wasn't sure if they were rightly named.

[Thomas Huber]

Janis might be right, that sometimes wrong seeds are included in a seed exchange.
But it must not be done with bad faith of the donors:

I remember that I noticed the seeds of speciosus (bright red) and speciosus
Albus (brownish-red) look totally different, same with Crocus chrysanthus
(bright red) and chrysanthus Afyon (dark red) - sorry, I don't have photos.

Later I have learnt from Helmut Kerndorff, that the seeds are also a valuable
feature to distinguish different species.

Meanwhile it has turned out, that the Turkish 'ex'chrysanthus plants really are different
species, and I think, that the plants in trade sold as speciosus Albus (from the Caucasus)
could also be another species....