Crocus October 2017

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Shall I get October on the road ??

Crocus gilanicus

Crocus karduchorum from Bitlis (Turkey)

Crocus (pallasii) hausknechtii - LEE 446 - 1

Crocus kotschyanus ssp leucopharynx

Crocus (serotinus) salzmanii

[pehe]

Crocus vallicola
Crocus nerimaniae
Crocus gilanicus

Poul

[sokol]

Really nice crocusses Poul.

I have Crocus gilanicus from three different sources and they all look very similar:

[sokol]

My own collection of Crocus thomasii South of Biograd na moru is the best of this species and it increases slowly over the years. I think this year is the best year I have ever had with it.




Crocus longiflorus looks very similar and the best stock I have was bought as Crocus malyi.

[Yann]

indeed it's a marvelous form 

[annew]

While I wait for my narcissi to start, the crocus brighten up my bulb houses.
Crocus mathewii, a favourite:

Crocus tournefortii with its magnificent style!

Crocus asumanae

Crocus speciosus albus

And the spiders are using my topdressing to weight their webs!

[Maggi Young]

Crocus mathewii with the colour reaching up and outwards from the throat is gorgeous!

[Steve Garvie]

That is a very nice form of Crocus mathewii Anne.
Do you ever sell surplus corms?

[fermi de Sousa]

That is a very nice form of Crocus mathewii Anne.
Do you ever sell surplus corms?

Or seeds?
cheers
fermi

[Janis Ruksans]

Following advice of Maggi in Facebook I'm trying new way for picture posting - and it works! Thank you, Maggi!

Two forms of Crocus zubovii from mountains at SE coast of Caspian sea in Iran
and Crocus xantholaimos from locus classicus

[Janis Ruksans]

One delayed C. vallicola flower from Artvin, I think the last this year. Crocus striatulus is published from E Turkey by HKEP, my plants collected in not far from type locality. Although features of 5 my originally collected plants are quite variable and only 2 has narrow white stripe used by authors to separate it, the number of chromosomes is the same and as with striatulus - different from other speciosus.
Next speciosus is Iranian, collected between C. archibaldiorum and C. zubovii
And again one of speciosus from Central Turkey. They are even more difficult for identification than "biflorus" crocuses
And the last is cultivar selected (I suppose from wild material somewhere in Caucasus) by Leonid Bondarenko - so intensively striped that Leonid named it 'Blue Web'.

[Janis Ruksans]

I like Crocus gilanicus more and more. On the first picture sample received by me from Gothenburg BG
Then 2 pictures of my own gatherings in Iran in spring 2016 and as last again gilanicus and "speciosus" from the same locality side by side, erroneously planted in the same pot.

[annew]

That is a very nice form of Crocus mathewii Anne.
Do you ever sell surplus corms?

To tell the truth, I hadn't noticed it was different! 
I will mark that corm, but it will be sometime before I can propagate enough to offer. Fermi, I will save the seeds!

[fermi de Sousa]

... I will save the seeds!

I live in hope!
Thanks,
fermi

[WimB]

Some Crocusses flowering here now:

Crocus banaticus (the deep purple and white one together come from a seedpot from the Crocus Group Seedex) and Crocus banaticus 'Novak White'.

Crocus bolensis