Crocus November 2009

[ian mcenery]

This plant is labelled C biflorus melantherus but I think I have put in the wrong label when repotting.

Can someone confirm it's ID please I think it is C boryii

[Gerry Webster]

Simon - according to Brian Mathew, C. hadriaticus is confined to W & S Greece. In the E it is replaced by C. cartwrightianus. I think CEH 613, while very variable, is typical C. cartwrightianus.

[Sinchets]

Oh well, there goes another theory. 

[tonyg]

This plant is labelled C biflorus melantherus but I think I have put in the wrong label when repotting.

Can someone confirm it's ID please I think it is C boryii

The white anthers seperate it from C biflorus melantherus.  Crocus boryi is indeed the most likely candidate.  Late flowering, mine were over weeks ago while the similar but smaller C laevigatus is still in flower.  I assume it is pure white, no outer markings?

[ian mcenery]

This plant is labelled C biflorus melantherus but I think I have put in the wrong label when repotting.

Can someone confirm it's ID please I think it is C boryii

The white anthers seperate it from C biflorus melantherus.  Crocus boryi is indeed the most likely candidate.  Late flowering, mine were over weeks ago while the similar but smaller C laevigatus is still in flower.  I assume it is pure white, no outer markings?

Tony thanks and yes the outer is almost pure white with the faintest blue markings on the margins

[dominique]

Thank you all for such nice pics. wattiorum is nec plus ultra !!!
Here the last ones of autumn, hyemalis and pallasii

[Janis Ruksans]

Today was something dryer weather, but dull clouds covers sky. So I went to open field check what is there, of course, together with my Canon. On attached pictures you can see the results of roe-dear visit on my open field - on first two pictures they got flowers of Crocus kotschyanus, on last you can see what left from lush foliage of Muscari armeniacum (really in last case it is not so bad, those leaves don't look nice in spring and must be cutted of in any case.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

In greenhouse still blooms Crocus goulimyi. Here pictures of three extremes - differently colored forms something out of usual colors. As weather is very dark, flowers stay only slightly opened.
Janis

[art600]

Wow

[Oron Peri]

Hello all,
Back after some weeks of absence from the forum due to lots of work and a few travels, finally hope to dedicate more time to photographing the plants in the wild and an urgent need to sow some 300 packets of seeds in the coming few days.

We had some very good rains so far that will result in an excellent blooming season...

This morning i went to visit the northern coastal part of Israel where a rare form of Crocus aleppicus is in bloom at the moment.
It differs by being smaller in size, slender, reminding much of C. veneris.
It appears in white or tinged with purple.

[Oron Peri]

Crocus hyemalis blooms by the milions almost every where, mainly at low altitudes up to 700m.

[Maggi Young]

Your return is most welcome, Oron and all the more so when you bring such photographic gifts! 

[Oron Peri]

Thanks Maggi

At home many species are blooming today,
One of these is a rare subspecies known only from one location in Palestine near the city of Ramalla and some populations around Amman in Jordan.

 C[1]. hermoneus ssp. palaestinus - Jordan.JPG
 C[1]. aleppicus - Upper Galilee.JPG
 C[1]. veneris - Cyprus.JPG
 C[1]. ochroleucus - Albus.JPG
 C[1]. cancellatus - S. Golan.JPG

[Oron Peri]

and..

C[1]. pallasii - Chios.JPG
 C[1]. pallasii, Chios.JPG
 cancellatus pamphylicus.JPG

[mark smyth]

Oron, great looking collection of Crocus!