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Steve - fabulous shot and so good you have 'rescued' this beauty. It might now be known as Crocus minutus. Much of danfordiae have been re-classified .... not entirely sure what is left under that name.Below are two pics of a plant I obtained in 1994 as Crocus biflorus isauricus. Very small flowered, with upright leaves exceeding the flowers at flowering time, I tentatively re-named it as Crocus danfordiae. These are 3rd generation seedlings which are pretty much identical to the original plants. It has been suggested they might be Crocus brickellii, another newly described plant which would once have been included in Crocus danfordiae. These lack the long style branches of Crocus brickellii so all this is pure conjecture!
I think those are C. danfordiae. C. brickellii has distinctly long stigmatic branches almost allways overtopping anthers and I never saw tips so deep between anthers. Another allie C. minutus has white stigma. No problems to separate. Steve's plant has yellow stigmatic branches, so I think it is blue danfordiae.
Kath's Crocus (Crocus danfordiae blue form)I got this bonny wee crocus many years ago (1994) as a gift from Kath Dryden. I subsequently lost interest in growing plants for over 15 years and during that time I lost many plants. This one declined to a single tiny corm with no label and when it flowered last year (the first for many years) I didn't know what it was. I have recently refurbished the bulb frame that it was rescued from and found the old faded label with Kath's name.
Such a lovely crocus Steve and so well captured, Kath would have been very proud.