Fritillaria 2018

[YT]

Fritillaria japonica, white flower form

[YT]

Fritillaria stenanthera, JJA503.208

[PaulFlowers]

I love these Fritillaria stenanthera. The white one looks blueish in real life

The sewerzowii is lovely too.

[colin e]

A few plants that did not make it to the South West AGS Show last Saturday:  A Fritillaria carica AS 54700 from Gothenburg seed sown in 2013; considering it is seed raised it is quite uniform in height. Fritillaria crassifolia (roylei): I have the roylei in brackets because I got the seed as roylei but it is actually a crassifolia. Fritillaria minima: I was very fortunate to be given some of these again after losing mine when we moved. Fritillaria recurva: I think I am beginning to get my head round growing these now but time will tell. Fritillaria sororum: This does seem to cause some debate. Is it a form of Fritillaria acmopetala or a separate species? Your answer I suspect will come down to whether you are a splitter or lumper.     

Colin

[colin e]

The Fritillaria eastwoodiae are also starting to flower for me. I will only have one flowering pot this year. (First two pictures below)
I made seed of Fritillaria eastwoodiae in 2014 and it has flowered for me this year. I know in that year I was still using small paint brushes to transfer pollen. I now prefer to pick an anther off one plant and apply it directly to the style of another. My reason for doing this is best shown by the first flowering of the Fritillaria eastwoodiae 2014: to me it looks like I mixed up the small paint brushes and ended up putting recurva onto eastwoodiae. You only need someone to distract at the wrong time and mistakes are made.  Seeing the flowers on the two bulbs that have flowered for me, they look like they have recurva in them (pictures three and four). It will be interesting to see what others look like. On a similar theme the last picture is a first flowering of a sowing of Fritillaria rixii in 2015 off a plant of mine which is most definitely rixii but I have no idea where the pollen came from, it was done naturally by insects! 

Colin

[Hannelore]

At last I got seed of  F. meleagroides, pontica and pudica. Has someone any short advice how to sow them?

BW
Hannelore

[Maggi Young]

This may help, Hannelore....


http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/061206/log.html

http://www.srgc.org.uk/journal/young/bulbsfromseed.html

[Hannelore]

Thanks!

[David Nicholson]

Colin, I know next to nothing about Frits but I do enjoy reading your posts.

[Maggi Young]

From Fritillaria Icones -  news of an exhibition ....

Szachownica  – różnorodność w kratkę (Fritillaria- checkered biodiversity) opens tomorrow at University of Warsaw Botanic Garden, 1 April - 4 May    http://www.ogrod.uw.edu.pl

[colin e]

Thank you for saying so David it is the general idea.

Colin

[SJW]

Spotted in southern Evia. Would this be Fritillaria ehrhartii or perhaps Fritillaria obliqua (flower angle?).


edit to add 

An update on this. Bob Wallis identified the Evia plant as Fritillaria ehrhartii (in its type locality!)

[Steve Garvie]

Nice to see these in their natural range Steve.

Having never seen either of these Frits in the wild I am not in a position to advise.
I grow F.obliqua and its ssp.tuntasia as well as ehrhartii. I find ehrhartii to be a dwarf species with almost succulent, rather glaucous and often propeller-like leaves. Obliqua with me is a taller, more robust plant with thinner leaves. Both have similar flowers but the tips of the tepals of ehrhartii have more prominent yellow markings.
Below are some images of my ehrhartii and obliqua.

Ehrhartii:





Obliqua:

[SJW]

Nice to see these in their natural range Steve.

Having never seen either of these Frits in the wild I am not in a position to advise.
I grow F.obliqua and its ssp.tuntasia as well as ehrhartii. I find ehrhartii to be a dwarf species with almost succulent, rather glaucous and often propeller-like leaves. Obliqua with me is a taller, more robust plant with thinner leaves. Both have similar flowers but the tips of the tepals of ehrhartii have more prominent yellow markings.
Below are some images of my ehrhartii and obliqua.

Thanks Steve, fabulous photos. Judging from your description and the images, the height and leaves of the Evia plant looks more like F. obliqua although you can see a trace of yellow on the tips of tepals...

[Maggi Young]

Not a lot of use to you in this case, Steve - but  obliqua smells  nice!