Crocus February 2015

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, i received it as a hybrid, a cross between alatavicus and korolkowii collected in Kuramin Mts. I never been there myself so thanks a lot for the useful information! I will call it korolkowii!

It isn't hybrid. I many times tried to cross all three CA crocus species in all possible combination and got no one seed. So you are right changing label.
We didn't see any alatavicus, only korolkowii at Kurama.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, it can't be 'Eyecatcher' because this one has a bright yellow throat - obviously of hybrid origin...
'Ladykiller' has whitish anthers, while Luc's plant clearly has yellow anthers.

All the other cultivars can be compared here:
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5060.0

I'm not growing those cultivars at least for 15-20 years, so I not remember details. My papers are not in best order at present due reconstruction of house. Not possible to find.
Alexandri and Ladykiller is described in Acta Pruhoniciana v. 33, 1975 (in Czech language).

[ian mcenery]

Here is a favourite and such a good tempered plant in the garden Crocus sieberi Bowles white

[Cyril L]

There was some discussion last month about my Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri (or is it C. alexandri now ?) and I promised some more pictures when it opened.
We did get some sun yesterday, so here it is again.

Thanks for posting these latest pictures Luc.  The angle the light hits the flower does have some effect on the colour, the bottom two pictures show the colour to be almost black but the top two, dark purple, still very impressive.  In the light of Thomas's comments it will be interesting to see whether the colour will change in future.

[Maggi Young]

Hubi, what did you think about Tony W's wild species  in this post ?  Isn't it beautiful?

[Thomas Huber]

Hubi, what did you think about Tony W's wild species  in this post ?  Isn't it beautiful?

You're only partly right, Maggi - beautiful isn't the word for this unbelievable incredible species 
Tony W's plant is one of the darkest I have ever seen, but also Tony G's plant from Lesley catches my breath  :

I would really love to grow more of this species - so far I only have the Dutch cultivars,
maybe somebody has some spare plants or seed to swap with me?

[Cyril L]

It's been so cold, my dark Crocus aerius would not open its flowers, so had to take it inside the kitchen.

[alpinelover]

Crocus biflorus subsp. nubigena  enjoy the snow...

[Matt T]

Very nice. And it has an extra stamen!

[alpinelover]

Also Crocus ancyrensis 'Golden Bunch' is a real snowmelting species. 

[alpinelover]

Crocus versicolor 'Picturatus'.

[alpinelover]

Crocus 'Firefly', or is it 'Snowfly'?

[alpinelover]

Crocus chrysanthus 'Fuscotinctus' (photo 1,2 and 3) and Crocus korolkowi ''Baisun Tau Dwarf'.(photo 4 and 5)

[Maggi Young]

Real beauties, Frankie, thank you! 

[alpinelover]

Crocusses and some snow...it makes me happy. It's a pleasure, Maggi.