Yellow fever in Turkey, March-2013

[Janis Ruksans]

Today I opened from winter cover crocuses in greenhouse, so I can show you two species mentioned in my report but not shown as no one flower were seen in wild.
They are
Crocus demirizianus - 2 pictures
On second picture you can see its anthers, used by Turkish botanist Osman Erol for separating it from nubigena. More pictures you can see earlier on Ibrahims entry in our Forum. His stock comes from other side of Čan, but not very far from locus classicus of C. demirizianus.
On third picture is
Crocus nubigena
Just the form from Pargama ruins just at Bergama city, used by O. Erol to compare with demirizianus.
The third species used for comparing by O. Erol is
Crocus crewei from near Denizli
Janis

[pehe]

Janis, thank you for a very interesting report. It is almost as if I were there too!

Poul

[Armin]

Thank you for the excellent travel report and images.

The beauty of Turkey's nature obviously still keeps so many secrets for us to detect.
Every new discovery is a surprise and cause a flurry of excitement for the enthusiast  
Congratulations for the new findings.

[Arda Takan]

Such a great adventure.
I wish I could join that journey.

[Janis Ruksans]

Congratulations for the new findings.

I found that there was mentioned pale gargaricus and named var. citrinus by Herbert (cited by B. Mathew). By G. Maw samples got from Kaz Dag (earlier Mt. Gargarus) were generally lemon coloured. Of course presence of Crocus herbertii on Boz-daģ is new discovery (completely new locality even for those who regardless of DNA research and morfological differences want to regard both as same species) and our plant really can be named as white, although minor shade of yellow, more precisely - greenish - can be seen. I think that it is whitest of all ever seen in both - gargaricus and herbertii, although both species is well separable by corm tunics - very different in each.

[Maggi Young]

Crocus demirizianus
More pictures you can see earlier on Ibrahims entry in our Forum. His stock comes from other side of Čan, but not very far from locus classicus of C. demirizianus.
Janis

see here
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9717.msg260944#msg260944
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9717.msg260947#msg260947