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Diane Clement

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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #45 on: June 29, 2008, 08:32:39 PM »
Help with ... Crocus goteborgenis ... is it some trendy new species?

Trendy maybe, but it's a hybrid not a species.  Click here, then go to hybrids on the left, then scroll down to second pic
http://www.thealpinehouse.fsnet.co.uk/crocus%20pages/

Perhaps the author of the site Mr Chief Croconut or his partner in croconut fever from Neustadt will fill in more info.  I think it's a "love it" or "hate it" sort of thing!
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #46 on: June 29, 2008, 08:56:39 PM »
Those two have been extremely quiet this summer
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #47 on: June 29, 2008, 09:02:18 PM »
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #48 on: June 29, 2008, 09:17:22 PM »
Am I impressed. 3 replies in less than 1 hour!!!!
There's still the question of:
Crocus goteborgensis
Crocus x goteburgensis
Crocus gothenbergensis
Crocus x gothenbergensis

I know I really ought to get out more, and get a life, and all that, but names are important(!)
If it its an interspecific hybrid it's going to be C x (something) I guess.
Books/Googling/PlantFinder aren't helping.
Please Mr Croconut(s)?.....

I note on the Bulb Log entry Ian says 'this is the crocus that I am most often asked for and it is possibly my least favourite'
.....I guess I never claimed to have good taste!
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #49 on: June 29, 2008, 09:26:38 PM »
Well, the Swedish folk would spell it Crocus x goteborgensis whereas we English speakers would incline to  Crocus x gothenburgensis  ;) But I believe that the former is the correct name. 8)

Take anything Ian writes regarding spelling with a pinch of salt.... he is dyslexic  :-[ ???

Crocus x gotoburgensis  is how it was  first described
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #50 on: June 29, 2008, 09:39:21 PM »
Thankyou,kind folk, as always.
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #51 on: June 29, 2008, 10:23:06 PM »
Those two have been extremely quiet this summer

That's because up with you, there are no (?) crocuses flowering at the moment. Soon be autumn, then watch out.
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #52 on: June 29, 2008, 10:29:53 PM »
I wouldn't suggest for a moment that Ian's taste was other than the best Maggi, but I think in this case he speaks from the position of being one of those fortunate, (relatively) few people who have a stock of either this hybrid or its beautiful parents. I have none of the three so can say (with IMPECCABLE taste Giles) that I think the hybrid is quite lovely and if I ever have a chance to obtain it or to repeat the cross, will do so with great speed and greater pleasure in anticipation. ;D
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #53 on: June 29, 2008, 10:34:24 PM »
Mark - I'm always quiet - I consider it a strength ;)
I think the question has been answered already :)
As this is not a plant that I grow myself I can only suggest references.  There was a write-up in the AGS bulletin a few years back but I don't have the number handy.

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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #54 on: June 30, 2008, 07:42:13 AM »
Nothing new can be added from Neustadt  8)
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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #55 on: June 30, 2008, 08:31:17 AM »
There was a write-up in the AGS bulletin a few years back but I don't have the number handy.

I seem to recall that it was shown by Eric Webster of Loughborough and got a PC some years ago.  The Alpine Garden Society has a cumulative index on-line.  Go to here to find the reference where it is listed as  Crocus x gotoburgensis

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/servlet/indexservlet?command=listentries&category=Crocus

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Re: Identifying Crocus
« Reply #56 on: June 30, 2008, 09:52:59 AM »
........a fifth way of spelling it?
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