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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: apothecary on January 31, 2008, 03:33:08 PM

Title: G. 'Galatea'
Post by: apothecary on January 31, 2008, 03:33:08 PM

I vaguely remember this one living up to my amateurish ideas of what 'Galatea' should resemble last year.  Haven't checked yet this year and I daren't, amongst so many experts, show myself up by being overly confident on any of them.  Isn't the flower a little too small and pointed though?

Title: Re: G. 'Galatea'
Post by: Martin Baxendale on January 31, 2008, 07:28:21 PM

Looks okay to me, Kristina. The only thing you're likely to confuse it with is the equally long-pedicelled 'Magnet', but that has a much more narrowly arrow-head shaped mark compared to Galatea's wider-splayed mark.

Title: Re: G. 'Galatea'
Post by: apothecary on February 08, 2008, 03:52:30 PM

So, that was the 'Galatea' that came from Springwoods (originally from Primrose Warburg).  Here's the one I found in the DWG and from a different source originally, clearly different.

Title: Re: G. 'Galatea'
Post by: Martin Baxendale on February 08, 2008, 04:43:08 PM

Hi Kristina. No, the pedicel obviously isn't at all dangly and the mark doesn't look right either. Another of the S. Arnott / Brenda Troyle type, a nivalis X plicatus hybrid. Can't put a definite name to it.