a quizz for the galanthophiles......

[mark smyth]

 ... and the answer is?

[Maggi Young]

Don't ask me.... I'm the one looking for an answer!
It's a real cracker, that's for sure!

[Gerard Oud]

Its Green Necklace!

[mark smyth]

I know the noo.

It's a selection, yes please  , of plicatus found by possibly Catherine Erskine or more likely Ian Christie. I first saw this when I gave a talk at Cambo.

[Maggi Young]

It's not from Cambo.
Not one of Ian the Christie's finds either.
Turns out it was one  Ian Y found and Ian Christie the Second kind gave  him from the Castle.
The plot thickens because on closer inspection in better weather there are different marking = on the flowers... from bulb to bulb in the little group and even from one inner to another on one flower!

More research needed over some years, the BD reckons, to see what is going on with this little cutie.

[mark smyth]

maybe it was a seedling group. It would be best to lift and divide and put all those that are the same together.

Or do you mean the main flower is different to the smaller second flower?

[ichristie]

Hi Mark, all, just thought I should join in so here are some more pictures??, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hi posted wrong picture Ian.

[mark smyth]

plicatus twins seen at Cambo in 2006