Crocus Year 2021

[Maggi Young]

Crocus cf. chrysanthus 13TUS-018 - Bozdag, W Turkey


Crocus cf. iranicus, but could be new species, too - Iranian Kurdistan.


Crocus cf. munzurense KPPZ-186B - Munzur Daģlari vicinity in Turkey


Crocus cf. veluchensis from Katara pass, Greece


Crocus cf. veluchensis from Kosovo

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Crocus cf. veluchensis from Serbia - light bluish form


Crocus cf. veluchensis from ski-centrum Sers in Greece shows great variability in colour of throat.


Crocus cf. veluchensis JKP 98-004 from Mt. Pilion, Greece


Crocus chrysanthus RIGA-034 - Gevne Beli, Turkey


Crocus concinnus JJVV-045-01 Gembos Yaila, Turkey

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Crocus danfordiae blue form from Norman Stevens


Crocus danfordiae


Crocus duncanii 15PTGS-026 with 8 flower segments from Portugal. Crocus duncanii described by Janis in IRG 73 : https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf 


Crocus fleischeri


Crocus gembosii Aldurbe Yaila, Turkey (JATU-073)

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Crocus gembosii seedling 18-01


Crocus gembosii Sunspot seedling almost identical with mother plant. The stock of  this plant which is  offered by few nurseries now seem to be virus infected.


Crocus gramensis - N Greece


Crocus gramensis seedling - I pollinated it with pollens from C. cf. veluchensis from Serbia. This seedling has very beautiful, unusual shade of yellow.


Crocus gramensis

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Crocus harveyi, Plagia pass, Ikaria Island, Greece
Crocus harveyi Rukšāns, publ. by Janis Ruksans in  Int. Rock Gard. 90: 18. 2017:  http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Jun211498039508IRG_90_June.pdf


Crocus heuffelianus 'Carpathian Wonder'


Crocus heuffelianus seedling from Taavi Tuulik #3 (Estonia)


Crocus ionopharynx HKEP-0304


Crocus jablanicensis from North Macedonia is one of the latest, easy identifiable by its white stigma. Last year some plants had yellowish stigmas, but this year all of them are with typically white stigmas

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Crocus kartaldaghensis HKEP-0101 - received from Erich Pasche


Crocus korolkowii alba - found as single plant in Tajikistan by Sjaak de Groot


Crocus korolkowii Alba  received from Sjaak de Groot


Crocus korolkowii 'Snow Leopard' - John Grimshaw's selection from C. korolkovii selfsown seedlings in his garden



Crocus korolkowii seedling 18-01

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Crocus kosaninii flower with 8 flower segments


Crocus kosaninii


Crocus laevigatus from Isle of Naxos - spring blooming form


Crocus leichtlinii


Crocus mediotauricus 14TUS-034B but could be albino of Crocus henrikii. Was collected without flowers at locus classicus of Crocus henrikii ( https://www.srgc.org.uk/genera/logdir/2014Apr241398370318IRG_Ruksans_Crocus_April_2014.pdf )

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Crocus michelsonii


Crocus olivieri ALBINA was found in Turkey by Ibrahim Sozen


Crocus rhodensis - Rhodos Island, Greece


Crocus ruksansii - described from Karpathos Island Greece) by my friend Dimitri Zubov in IRG 90 of June 2017: https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Jun211498039508IRG_90_June.pdf


Crocus sarichinarensis albino from Sarichinardag, not far from Antalya. Crocus sarichinarensis was discovered and published by me. At locus classicus on Sarichinardag I found one albino which turned out to be a good increaser. As related to C. flavus and mouradii it requires deep planting.

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Crocus sarichinarensis


Crocus sieberi 18-02


Crocus sieberi hybrid 'Creme Diamond' raised by Dirk Schnabel 


Crocus sieberi selection 18-04


Crocus sieberi selection 19-01

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Crocus sieberi selection from wild - almost a copy of  cv. Hubert Edelsten


Crocus sieberi 'White Giant' - from Omalos Plain, Crete - flowers of huge size comparable with Dutch C. x cultorum flower size.


Crocus sieberi x C. gramensis - I hope that this exceptional beauty will multiply by corm splitting.


Crocus sublimis 'Tricolor' - one of the best crocus cultivars and one of very few foreign raised cultivars grown by me.


Crocus taseliensis RUDA-008 - this picture shows variability of anther colour in this species.

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Crocus tommasinianus x vernus - Grimshaw seedling


Crocus veluchensis  x C. gramensis.   Crocus veluchensis actually represents at least 2-3 different species. Plants from Serbia (and, possibly, Bulgaria) are making new roots before old ones die. I crossed them with C. gramensis and seedlings showing all spectrum of colours keeps this feature of very early rooting, whilst Crocus veluchensis from Greece roots much later.


Crocus vernus from Helvetia shows variability of this species from pure white to lighter or darker striped lilac and deep purple


Crocus vernus 'Purple Desire' was selected by Antoine Hoog in his bulb nursery in France


Crocus yalovensis - publ. by Janis Ruksans in IRG March 2018  https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Mar291522354177IRG100.pdf 

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Crocus yataganensis


Crocus zetterlundii LST-103 - N. Turkey, E from Abant. Publ. by Janis Ruksans in IRG  April 2015 https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Apr231429824727IRG64.pdf



Crocus hybrid from cross - Crocus cf. veluchensis, Serbia x C. gramensis.
Crocus veluchensis actually represents at least 2-3 different species. Plants from Serbia (and, possibly, Bulgaria) are making new roots before old ones die. I crossed them with C. gramensis and seedlings showing all spectrum of colours keeps this feature of very early rooting, whilst Crocus veluchensis from Greece roots much later.



 F-2 generation seedling from Crocus malyi hybrid with unknown pollen parent. F-1 was found in Gothenburg BG and has blue flowers. It turned fertile and F-2 seedlings in my nursery showed that another parent could be C. heuffelianus or some related species.



Fantastic hybrid from cross between Crocus sieberi x C. gramensis (pollen parent)

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This beautiful natural hybrid between Crocus alexandrii and Crocus chrysanthus was found on Mt. Falakro in Greece where both species are growing in mixed populations. I spotted two plants of hybrid origin the 2nd you can see as single flower in background


One of my favorites now in its full beauty - Crocus gembosii seedling n21-07


Only at the  end March  does Crocus pelistericus from Kaimahtalan start blooming   - requires acid soil.


Red Crocus!


the red crocus ..... Dima asked me about the "red" crocus. It really is the mostly reddish toned, but it is shade of purple, not the red. It was spotted by Dima (and presented to me) on yaila in Crimea (Ukraine) - at this moment temporally occupied by Russia. 

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Outside in the garden.....


Crocus thirkeanus (former C. herbertii, C. gargaricus ssp. herbertii) are making side growing stolons. Cormlets are so tiny, that it is very difficult to collect them all, so it perfectly feels in outside beds where can grow for decades without any attention and are slowly spreading.

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Seedling from Crocus heuffelianus Carpathian Wonder # 21-01


Selection 14-02 from Crocus sieberi from Omalos Plain in Crete


Selection 20-15 from Crocus gembosii - a little later blooming and with most orange toned flowers


Selection 21-21 from Crocus gembosii, Gembos Yaile, Turkey



Selection from Crocus gembosii #18-07 - most likely hybrid with C. concinnus