Caucasian seeds sought

[Rodger Whitlock]

• Anemone caucasica, white flowered
• Cyclamen abchasicum, C. adscharicum, C. colchicum (geographic races of C. coum)
• Erythronium caucasicum
• Orphanidesia gaultherioides (Epigaea gaultherioides)
• Primula juliae, the true wild form, not hybrids

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[Lesley Cox]

I'm sure you are not the only person wanting some of those Rodger.

[Rodger Whitlock]

Undoubtedly you are right, Lesley, but you never know who's growing (say) Orphanidesia gaultherioides, gets masses of good seed every year, and doesn't realize what they have.

Orphanidesia may in fact be out of cultivation now. In Holubec & Křivka's beautiful book The Caucasus and its Flowers, the illustration of Orphanidesia is a drawing. It's the only plant in the book without a photograph, to my recollection.

Yet back in the 1930s or thereabouts, a (now long-gone) alpine nursery here was selling it for a dollar a pop at a Saturday farmers' market -- so an old timer tells me.

Myself, I'm gradually working up a stock of Anemone caucasica, as it enjoys my conditions. So far, sadly, the seedlings have all been blue like their parents. And the young tubers are so small they must be pot grown for several years before planting them out.

[Lesley Cox]

Well certainly my own Epigaea asiatica sets plenty of seeds and is self fertile. I'm amazed that every flower seems to swell out into a globular fruit, so why not E. gaultherioides too? (syn. Orphanidesia gaultherioides.) I'm pretty sure there have been plants at UK shows in recent years, say the last 2-3, so maybe it's still around. Maggi will know.

[The Russian]

Probably next year I can send you a tuber of the white A. caucasica.

[gote]

Roger,
Have you tried Holubec's catalogue?
If they are not there maybe he knows a source.
Göte

[Hjalmar]

Erythronium caucasicum is on Pilous' list, which I recieved today.

[Maggi Young]

Erythronium caucasicum is on Pilous' list, which I recieved today.

 See this thread here, also : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2808.0

[Zdenek]

Rodger,
I grow Erythronium caucasicum and in this year I collected first three seeds (I am sorry, other I lost). So if I will have some crop in the next year ....
I grow also a caucasian Cyclamen which I label C. abchasicum but I am not sure if it is not one from the other two. It was collected many years ago in Caucasus but I don't know in what area. I enclose here a photo. It is quite weedy in our garden.