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Bulbs => Crocus => Topic started by: Yann on January 01, 2016, 03:35:45 PM
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Crocus hyemalis, from the Carmel Mountain Park, Israel.
Crocus caricus, from our friend Janis.
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Crocus isauricus, TK, Gunei, it smells so good i've brought it in my desk.
Crocus biflorus pseudonubigena, playing with light
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Crocus isauricus, TK, Gunei, it smells so good i've brought it in my desk.
Oh no, it's highly addictive....withdrawal symptoms are seeing flying Crocusses everywhere and wanting to travel to the mediterranean...
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I've the gut feeling that each year i catch the same illness ;D
I draw crosses on the walls waiting for spring, the plane is already booked for 2 destinations...
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Stunning crocusses Yann! A very good start of the new year :o :o
Here is Crocus biflorus ssp. stridii in flower and also Crocus biflorus ssp. isauricus
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Here is ... Crocus biflorus ssp. isauricus
Such crocus was for a long regarded as C. isauricus, but recently Kerndorff, Pasche & Harpke, showed that true C. isauricus comes from more Eastern locality near Sertavul and looks quite different.
The main features of flower are
Flowers – of a very bowl-shape with segment-proportion of outer segments 2.2. (see attached pictures)
Flower segments – Inside all segments are invariably white without any markings.
Outer segments –22-26-33 mm long and 9-12-14 mm wide, outside predominantly very finely speckled light bluish violet, without dark basal blotches.
Those from localities situated west were described as several new species, and on your pictures could be some of those, something resembles C. mawii or C. concinnus. Most likely one of those was selected by O. Erol et al. as type of C. isauricus, but there are some features on attached original herbarium of Siehe (his gatherings were used as type for description of C. isauricus), which force me to follow HKEP opinion, and namely it is dimensions of flower segments. In C. concinnus (if I correctly identified it): “The segment proportion of outer segments is 3.4 signalising comparatively strap-like segments”. But in crocus from Sertavul: “Segment-proportion of outer segments very low (2.2) which signalises a very bowl-shaped flower”. Flowers on published herbarium sheet are distinctly bowl-shaped (segment proportion ~ 2.1-2.5), so they more match with specimens from Sertavul. I would not name C. concinnus flower segments as “strap-like” but its flowers certainly are not bowl-shaped, too.
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Thanks a lot for explanation janis!
It becomes really difficult for us as amateur growers to identify a plant correctly...
But if i look to this picture the lower one is very similar to Crocus concinnus (http://crocusmania.blogspot.be/2015/01/crocus-concinnus-kerndorff-pasche.html (http://crocusmania.blogspot.be/2015/01/crocus-concinnus-kerndorff-pasche.html))
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Thanks a lot for explanation janis!
It becomes really difficult for us as amateur growers to identify a plant correctly...
You are wrong if you think that for me it is easy... So many still unidentified stocks in collection. We had minus 19 last night and after a week offered minus 26... brrrr
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You are wrong if you think that for me it is easy... So many still unidentified stocks in collection. We had minus 19 last night and after a week offered minus 26... brrrr
I wish, here temps stay above +5°C constantly, and until the 11th at least the minimal temp. will stay above 5°C. We don't want a winter like yours, Janis...but something akin to a winter would be agreeable.
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It is still only late evening but outside is already minus 20 and almost no snow. For tomorrow offered heavy snowing, some warming and from Tuesday again minus 20. But it is good time to study flower pictures, literature, herbariums and time for unexpected discoveries and one more species was identified just sitting at table and computer.
Amazingly, but this happened when I started to compare original description with published pictures and found some discrepancies. Looking on my plants under slightly wider concept, and taking in account sometimes quite freely noted localities of locus classicus, was possible to attach correct name (I'm certain for 99%) to another one acquisition, still grown under number and it was
Crocus katrancensis
Pictures from wild and from greenhouse attached. The one with chaotically positioned flowers is included only to show great variability of this species.
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It is early evening and outside is still +11°C and cloudy. For tomorrow will be sunny/cloudy and +6 to 15°C, get chilly from Friday down to +2°C in the morning through next weekend ::)
Crocus rujanensis from Janis. Their flower colour is deeper and sepals are broader than C. rujanensis, JJA 351.100 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13806.msg346977#msg346977).
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Only just opened but promising:
Crocus sieberii 'Spartacus'
Crocus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604
Crocus ushakiensis (former Crocus crysanthus 'Ushak Orange')
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lucky Ruben mine 'Spartacus' avorted :'(
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Crocus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604
I suppose that JP 8604 could be regarded as nubigena. It is from Lesbos, but other "nubigenas" from Samos, Ikaria, Karpathos and Turkey - most likely will be another different species, at least they are separable by morphology, without special DNA. May be another one will be selected as typical nubigena, I don't know. That "nubigena" from Goktepe in Turkey was named as C. antherotes (I at least suppose that, as plant from there looks perfectly matching description).
I hope that HKEP will publish them (nubigena series review) sooner or later, I don't want to enter there and I only can agree that - may be soon will be requested DNA certificate attached to each purchased corm... , although I described more than 20 new taxa, but I always looked for clear features to identify even without DNA. I quite recently got reply from one famous Crocus specialist when I asked about possible identity of some of mine acquisitions - "As I told you often before, the final proof can be made only by DNA." I don't think that it is the best. And I can't agree to thesis that for identifying are needed at least 30 randomly selected plants to get average values for features. It is good for description, I agree, but not for identifyuing. I don't think that thesis in key like "filaments 6.5 mm long..." versus "filaments 5.4 mm long..." are the best features for identifying of species if you have 1-3 plants in your pot.
Janis
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But if i look to this picture the lower one is very similar to Crocus concinnus (http://crocusmania.blogspot.be/2015/01/crocus-concinnus-kerndorff-pasche.html (http://crocusmania.blogspot.be/2015/01/crocus-concinnus-kerndorff-pasche.html))
This one could be concinnus and I attached to this (most likely) that name, but it could be C.mawii, too. I still didn't made final decision about identity of my acquisitions from this region where both species are growing. Unfortunately "locus classicus" mentioned in original description covers too large area, to be helpful. It is one of the greatest problems with many new varieties published by HKEP. We simply must trust and can't to make cross-checking...
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Many nice crocus already this year .... and much head scratching over how to name them :)
Here we hope for a cold spell to slow down the rush to flower for many plants. Below just a couple of the crocus now in flower, Crocus sieberi sublimis and Crocus nevadensis.
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All very beautiful, thank you - I can pretend spring is coming... :)
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All very beautiful, thank you - I can pretend spring is coming... :)
Ai, ai, ai - here tonight promissed "only" minus 29 C... :'(
Really was minus 30 C :'( :'( :'(
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Ai, ai, ai - here tonight promissed "only" minus 29 C... :'(
Really was minus 30 C :'( :'( :'(
I've never experienced such severe cold :o
Please take care of yourself, Janis.
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And still no snow, Janis? Black frost so dangerous for plants.
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Crocus danfordiae from blue form, JJA 344.205 Its flower is not blue and pistil is orange.
Should I call it danfordiae or minutus ???
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very nice one YT, even how he calls! But i understand you're questions, its very difficult for determination.
Here a very Sunny day with 8 degrees. Forecast for next week is colder overday 4 degrees, and light nightfrost minus 1 degree.
Crocus biflorus ssp. fibroannulatus
Crocus crysanthus 'Sunspot'
Crocus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604 : the best one out of the 8 selections i grow of nubigena
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Crocus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604 : the best one out of the 8 selections i grow of nubigena
A real beauty!
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Crocus danfordiae from blue form, JJA 344.205 Its flower is not blue and pistil is orange.
Should I call it danfordiae or minutus ???
It is good danfordiae. C. minutus has white stigma. Blue and white danfordiae often are growing together, so no wonder for white seedling.
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And still no snow, Janis? Black frost so dangerous for plants.
Fortunately all is covered by very powdery snow - around 7 cm, Usually it is sufficient. 5 cm of snow saved everything at even minus 49 at snow level at Christmas in late seventies or early eighties, not remember in which year it was. This winter was great disaster in UK, too. Minus thirty is normal for our winters and usually last around week or so (not in previous 3 winters, when temperature never dropped till minus 20, and we joked, that we had no winter at all).
Tonight started warming. We had only minus 17, although in late evening still was minus 22-23 C. In greenhouse all pots are covered with 5 cm sheets of glass-wool, but yesterday I really worried about them, too. Checking temperature in greenhouse where under cover is temperature sensor it showed still +1 C. So all is OK.
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Jani,
I hope you're keeping yourself warm too ;)
Still no frost over here, so Crocusses keep on flowering unprotected:
Crocus ancyrensis
3 x Crocus cyprius
Crocus dalmaticus 'Petrovac'
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Crocus fleischeri
Crocus rujanensis
2 x Crocus vitellinus
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Crocus korolkowii - RI form
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Yann, what does 'RI' mean please?
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RI form has straight and well drawn brown stripes, the bud is well tubular which is typical.
other korolwokii can have spotted brown stripes and bud are often conical.
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very nice one YT, even how he calls! But i understand you're questions, its very difficult for determination.
It is good danfordiae. C. minutus has white stigma. Blue and white danfordiae often are growing together, so no wonder for white seedling.
Thank you, Ruben and Janis!
RI form has straight and well drawn brown stripes, the bud is well tubular which is typical.
other korolwokii can have spotted brown stripes and bud are often conical.
A well contrasted bicolour flower, Yann :D
I'm not sure but David asked you What is “RI” short for?
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I guess initials, but don't know who. Gonna investigate.
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Crocus michelsonii
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Crocuses at their glory!
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Crocus michelsonii
They look very wonderful, Tatsuo!!
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Crocus michelsonii
Excellent!!!
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Crocus michelsonii
Compact and well grown Tatsuo.
Yesterday was the first time I saw sunlight in 2016. My C. michelsonii flowers are flopping before they open.
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Thanks, all :) I'm hoping the weather is getting brighter and dryer soon at your place, Cyril.
Here's the same C. michelsonii pot today.
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Crocus biflorus subsp. nubigena, from Janis :)
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Very nice form YT!
Crocus biflorus ssp. alexandri
Crocus versicolor - white selection
Crocus korolkowii from Uzbekistan
Crocus imperatii
Crocus sieberii 'Michael hoog's memory'
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Crocus (biflorus ssp;) nubigena JP 8604
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Crocus sieberii 'Firefly'
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Crocus sieberi atticus Vardousia
Crocus atticus 'Stunner'
Crocus sieberi atticus Amfiklia
Crocus chrysanthus 'Saturnus'
Crocus chrysanthus 'Uschak Orange'
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Crocus pseudonubigena
Crocus atticus 'Ronald Ginns' (my camera is already....tomorrow 17/01)
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Your camera is like your flowers, Yann - in a hurry for Spring!! What a lot of things you have coming into flower, not just crocus. 8)
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+))
Crocus fleischeri - Gulek Pass - Site n2
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Mid week I saw some colour in a pot outside - I took it inside to the warmth today as it was -1 last night and +1.5 (Daytime today) and was delighted with the results - chrysanthus "sunspot".
Graeme Strachan
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Nothing more cheering than some Crocus cheer, in my book. 8)
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Especially bright yellow ones in these dull days.
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Maggi/Roma,
After the wet weather we have had and the now freezing temperatures that we have had in Aberdeen I was surprised to see these flowers. I had a bit of difficulty getting them out of the container I had them in as they were frozen.
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Two crisp sunny days after endless dreich skies with rain of biblical proportions .........and now it's snowing!
Some cheery yellow crocus:
Crocus korolkowii -a form from Turkmenistan
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1531/24398796846_f5a2991803_o.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1638/24316750872_60306406f3_o.jpg)
Crocus korolkowii -a form from Tadjikistan
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1648/24398797276_07cdd78879_o.jpg)
Crocus chrysanthus "Uschak orange"
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1598/24129404570_9db79af00b_o.jpg)
Crocus chrysanthus "Sunspot"
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1583/24129405040_34c4a45dc6_o.jpg)
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Two crisp sunny days after endless dreich skies with rain of biblical proportions .........and now it's snowing!
Some cheery yellow crocus:
Crocus korolkowii -a form from Turkmenistan
Crocus korolkowii -a form from Tadjikistan
Crocus chrysanthus "Uschak orange"
Crocus chrysanthus "Sunspot"
Beautiful and clear pictures as usual, Steve :)
I LOVE the red centre one :P
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One of the Crocus alexandri from Janis in 2015 :)
Hoping the other bulbs have more contrasted flowers.
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Crocus korolkowii -a form from Turkmenistan
You are sure that it is from Turkmenistan? Don't think that it is growing there. Even at very East of Turkmenistan and closely adjacent Uzbekistan regions never saw it.
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You are sure that it is from Turkmenistan? Don't think that it is growing there. Even at very East of Turkmenistan and closely adjacent Uzbekistan regions never saw it.
I got it from Jan Jilek. It was labelled as coming from Turkmenistan. I bought it in 2014. He also offered it on his 2015 bulb list.
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What a wealth of gorgeous Crocus' shown here ! :o :o :o
Tatsuo, that Michelsonii is to die for !!! :o
I love the brown centered Korolkowii, Steve, very rare I believe !
Some flowering here before the frost comes and will take over our early Spring.
Crocus (biflorus formerly I believe) alexandri
Crocus chrysanthus 'Sunspot' - also appreciated by slugs.... >:(
Crocus korlkowii 'Spring cocktail' hiding somewhat between the leaves
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sharp details of alexandrii, love it :D
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I got it from Jan Jilek. It was labelled as coming from Turkmenistan. I bought it in 2014. He also offered it on his 2015 bulb list.
The origins (localities) of plants for this source not always seem to be trustable - C. korolkowii isn't listed in any publication about Flora of Turkmenistan and not even for adjacent territories of Uzbekistan, Iran. I grows in Uzbekistan, but more to East, in Tadjikistan and adjacent Afganistan. I several times tried to order from JJ and never got any seed or bulb.
Just found its name in list of bulbous plants of Kirghyzstan and I forgot to mention its occurence in NW corner of Pakistan
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Crocus caricus
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1638/23797585154_130417b997_o.jpg)
Crocus taseliensis -Not the best of images due to the low light level. The flower was etiolated and lying on its side.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1547/24343348201_f859465284_o.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1608/24399606986_fd967ab93a_o.jpg)
Crocus minutus -Apart from a slightly paler stigma this to my eyes appears to be identical to Crocus danfordiae.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1530/24425792445_b60a00072a_o.jpg)
Crocus sieberi sieberi
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1518/24317551122_5824f9f446_o.jpg)
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wonderfull pictures :P, caricus smell so strong all over the greenhouse.
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Crocus biflorus stridii
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I received 3 corms of a Crocus biflorus sp. from Kot - many thanks
The 3 corms produced 10 flowers. Can anyone identify the crocus please
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Several years ago I received seeds from the Crocus Group. The seeds had been collected i Greece by a member and were identified by his numbers.
This year I was surprised by the first flower from GP06M11 I would appreciate your thoughts on what it might be.
I took the photos over several days and the colour became less with age, but was the startlnig 'purple' at the beginning
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Several years ago I received seeds from the Crocus Group. The seeds had been collected i Greece by a member and were identified by his numbers.
This year I was surprised by the first flower from GP06M11 I would appreciate your thoughts on what it might be.
I took the photos over several days and the colour became less with age, but was the startlnig 'purple' at the beginning
Quality of pictures far too poor. If leaves without white midrib on surface - pelistericus.
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Crocus baytopiorum
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1654/24130172630_d5dc068bdc_o.jpg)
Crocus nubigena
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1561/23798978563_7fc3c7cac0_o.jpg)
Crocus michelsonii -Unfortunately there was insufficient light for the flower to fully open.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1533/24146120860_8ddcbc5780_o.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1503/23813544754_f2fd1e34ce_o.jpg)
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With regard to:
GP06M11
Arthur I will have to check my records. I believe it is Crocus veluchensis which, I collected on mount Ossa in 2011 where some very fine specimens occur.
Janis, it is not Crocus pelistericus since I have never collected in Macedonia. I have collected, so far, only from various regions in Thessaly.
George Papapolymerou
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Steve your photo are very sharp, do you use the EF 100 mm?
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Stunning crocusses where shown! Here lots of rain the first two weeks of january followed by some frost so no flowering crocusses here :-(
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With regard to:
GP06M11
Arthur I will have to check my records. I believe it is Crocus veluchensis which, I collected on mount Ossa in 2011 where some very fine specimens occur.
Janis, it is not Crocus pelistericus since I have never collected in Macedonia. I have collected, so far, only from various regions in Thessaly.
George Papapolymerou
George
Whatever it turns out to be, it is a very fine Crocus. Thanks for collecting the seeds
Arthur
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Steve your photo are very sharp, do you use the EF 100 mm?
Thanks Yann.
Yes I use the EF 100mm IS macro lens.
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Crocus baytopiorum
Crocus nubigena
Crocus michelsonii -Unfortunately there was insufficient light for the flower to fully open.
Truly amazing pictures Steve ! :o
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Crocus michelsonii -Unfortunately there was insufficient light for the flower to fully open.
A lovely dark coloured michelsonii, Steve 8) Where did you get it from, please?
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some in flower today,no sun brought into the house to open
Crocus michelsonii
Crocus cvijicii
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri
Crocus nevadensis
Crocus baytopiorum
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A lovely dark coloured michelsonii, Steve 8) Where did you get it from, please?
Thanks Tatsuo!
I got this clone as a smallish corm from Jan Jilek two years ago. It came from stock that Jan collected -probably in Turkmenistan but I have no details of its exact provenance. It seems to be darker than the selected clone "Turkmenian Night".
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some in flower today,no sun brought into the house to open
Crocus michelsonii
Crocus cvijicii
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri
Crocus nevadensis
Crocus baytopiorum
With the dark days we're having it's lucky that crocus are so obliging to open when you take them indoors. Every little helps!
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With regard to:
GP06M11
Arthur I will have to check my records. I believe it is Crocus veluchensis which, I collected on mount Ossa in 2011 where some very fine specimens occur.
Janis, it is not Crocus pelistericus since I have never collected in Macedonia. I have collected, so far, only from various regions in Thessaly.
George Papapolymerou
When our team (Kurt Vicklery, Henrik Zetterlund and I) found both species (veluchensis and pelistericus) side by side in Republic of Macedonia, flowers of both were so similar that only leaves and corms allowed to separate them
Janis
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Thanks Tatsuo!
I got this clone as a smallish corm from Jan Jilek two years ago. It came from stock that Jan collected -probably in Turkmenistan but I have no details of its exact provenance. It seems to be darker than the selected clone "Turkmenian Night".
Thank you, Steve :) I'll order some bulbs to him this year!
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Crocus caricus from Janis. It's the first blooming here :)
Crocus chrysanthus JJA 343.211. Turkey, Kartal Geçidi. 1560m. Ex LST 068A.
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some in flower today,no sun brought into the house to open
Crocus michelsonii
Crocus cvijicii
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri
Crocus nevadensis
Crocus baytopiorum
Verrrry nice series Tony ! Crocus caricus from Janis. It's the first blooming here :)
Crocus chrysanthus JJA 343.211. Turkey, Kartal Geçidi. 1560m. Ex LST 068A.
The caricus is to die for, YT
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Crocus caricus from Janis. It's the first blooming here :)
Such a delicate flower with fine colouring.
quote from Tony Willis
Crocus baytopiorum
Not sure how anyone could ever resist being captivated by that blue!
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The caricus is to die for, YT
Such a delicate flower with fine colouring.
Thanks Luc and Maggi :) Janis' C. caricus is extremely fascinating :o
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Another Crocus caricus from Janis
Crocus sieberi subsp. sieberi JJA 352.401
Crocus ‘Sunspot’ has just started to bloom
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Marvellous Tatsuo :P
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Some in flower today
Crocus atticus
Crocus biflorus issauricus
Crocus biflorus ssp pulchricolor white
Crocus C.x gothenburgensis x C. Pelistericus
Crocus chrysanthus
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a few more
Crocus fleischeri
Crocus self sown in sand bench
Crocus sieberi
Crocus vernus
Crocus versicolor
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Tony your gothenburgensis x pelistericus is whaouhh!
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Crocus x paulineae 'pauline'
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Crocus sieberi sublimis
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Crocus cyprius
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Crocus vernus ssp napolitanus
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Crocus x paulineae 'pauline'
Really Yann?? WOW, WOOOW I think I need an ambulance now!! ;)
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Wim, I have an oxygen tank - would you like to share it? It helps!
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Mesmerizing these Crocus flowers! I promised I won't open the Crocus section when I have other more important things to do (like fixing my lights stand)
but is so addictive :o
I could use the C. x paulineae instead of lights!
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Yann
very nice. Your C.vernus looks very much like mine which came from Italy,Gargano.
The C. x paulineae is very similar in colour to some of the hybrids between C. biflorus pulchricolor and C. chrysanthus which are really lovely. Again like them arising from blue and yellow flowers.
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Tony the vernus comes from Monte San Angelo, i found it along a dirt road under construction.
I also have other bulbs from 2 different sources, they look different.
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Wim, I have an oxygen tank - would you like to share it? It helps!
Yes, please.... It's really stunning, isn't it?
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I'll have another surprise later ;)
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I'll have another surprise later ;)
I'll have the ambulance on speed-dial ;)
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The warmest 25 january ever in Belgium. Up to 14 degrees celcius.
Many Crocus in flower:
Crocus versicolor from VAR in France
Crocus adanensis
Crocus crysanthus 'Goldene Sonne'
Crocus crysanthus 'Sunspot'
Crocus sieberii 'Ronald Ginns'
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Crocus versicolor Alba
Crocus sieberii ssp. nivalis
Crocus alatavicus 'Alma Ata 1'
Crocus hartmanianus
Crocus taseliensis
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Crocus mouradii
Crocus kerndorfiorum
Crocus versicolor 'Alpes Maritiemes'
Crocus ushakiensis
Crocus sieberii 'Firefly'
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Crocusbed overvieuw
Crocus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604
Crocus crysanthus from Mt katara Pass Greece
Crocus orphei
Crocus dalmaticus 'Petrovac'
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Crocus biflorus ssp. biflorus var parkinsonii
Crocus biflorus ssp. alexandrii
Crocus biflorus ssp. biflorus MS 948
Crocus rujanensis
Crocus biflorus ssp. stridii
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And the last ones (all in flower today) it was crocus heaven :-d
Crocus imperatii
Crocus cyprius
Crocus baytopiorum
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What a batch Ruben!! funny to see your Petrovac in flowers, mine underglass is just in buds ???
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Ruben,a lovely selection. I wish I could grow mine outside but it is just too wet.
Crocus pelistericus, white form
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Crocus x gothenburgensis
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Crocus x gothenburgensis
the name that was given when this plant was described is
Crocus x gotoburgensis - just for the sake of anyone searching the given name so they find the pictures above!
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This one is certainly the most beautiful of all :P
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This one is certainly the most beautiful of all :P
I must agree, this one is the most beautiful thus far!
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A stunning plant Tony.
Do you grow it and both parents outdoors for most of the year, or under glass?
Here C. pelistericus seems happiest in the garden although slugs often damage the flowers.
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A stunning plant Tony.
Do you grow it and both parents outdoors for most of the year, or under glass?
Here C. pelistericus seems happiest in the garden although slugs often damage the flowers.
They are grown outside all year in clay pots plunged in a sand bed. I do have a cover on during winter to keep of excess water. I do keep them watered all summer,they never dry out. They are also in shade and only have sun a couple of hours a day in mid summer.
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Crocus × gotoburgensis R.Rolfe, Quart. Bull. Alpine Gard. Soc. Gr. Brit. 68: 230 (2000).
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The warmest 25 january ever in Belgium. Up to 14 degrees celcius.
Many Crocus in flower:
They all look superb in the sunshine.
Here we have warmth but not so much sunshine :(
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Beautiful Crocus Tony ...
Here are the ones that bloom right now at home. Last week, we had 20 cm of snow, -10°C. Today it is 8 ° C.
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Crocus angustifolius
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Crocus corsicus
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Crocus sieberi 'Firefly'
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Crocus tommasianus 'Roseus'
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Crocus vernus 'Grand Maître'
This is a beginning of collection, I do not yet have many rarities but many commercial cultivars. It will take some patience to show you specimens from my seedlings.
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I think that one of the great charms of Crocus is that the commercially available varieties are so very beautiful. With some plants only the rarest are the most lovely!
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Crocus ‘Sunspot’ is in full bloom.
Crocus adanensis JJA 339.701
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Sunspot is part of what subspecies?
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Sunspot is part of what subspecies?
Hello, Cfred72 :)
‘Sunspot’ is a nursery raised chrysanthus/biflorus cultivar.
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Hi Fred, nice to see another Croconut from Belgium ;D.
A very nice Crocus from Dirk. Will say the name later as i use it for quiz in Vrv forum lol
Crovus biflorus ssp. nubigena JP 8604 - in flower for more than a month a still produce more and more flowers
Crocus biflorus ssp. pseudonubigena KPPZ 108
Crocus baytopiorum
Crocus sieberii 'Ronald Ginns'
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Crocus sieberii 'George'
Crocus tommasinianus 'JMG 04' a good selection from John Grimshaw
Crocus sieberii with visitor ;D
More and more flowers to see
Crocus paschei
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A very nice Crocus from Dirk. Will say the name later as i use it for quiz in Vrv forum lol
:) ;D ;D ;D
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A couple of 'special' crocuses caught in the rare sunshine - it was a perfect day.
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandrii - corms I received from forumist Lesley Cox a few years ago. They reversed their seasons very quickly although I had them in flower in early June the first year. They are deep purple when the buds are tight closed but open gloriously revealing the much paler inners.
The other special is the form of Crocus dalmaticus - a Brian Mathew collection M5316 which came here in 1999 from Ray Cobb. I thought I had lost it many years ago, just a tiny cormlet remained after a disastrous season but today I found it in flower once more in one of my 'hospital' pots where odd single corms are nursed to flowering size. Alongside it is a flower of Crocus imperati.
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The free monthly e-magazine, International Rock Gardener IRG 73 for January 2016 is online now :
A new species of Crocus is described by Janis Ruksans : Crocus duncanii- named to honour Brian Duncan
and a new Galanthus cultivar, 'Longraigue' by Alan Briggs is also named and last but not least, some good, readily available garden plants are listed to coincide with David Nicholson's list of Specialist Plant Nurseries (http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf)
Read the January 2016 IRG here : http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Jan281454019772IRG73.pdf)
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A couple of 'special' crocuses caught in the rare sunshine - it was a perfect day.
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandrii - corms I received from forumist Lesley Cox a few years ago. They reversed their seasons very quickly although I had them in flower in early June the first year. They are deep purple when the buds are tight closed but open gloriously revealing the much paler inners.
The other special is the form of Crocus dalmaticus - a Brian Mathew collection M5316 which came here in 1999 from Ray Cobb. I thought I had lost it many years ago, just a tiny cormlet remained after a disastrous season but today I found it in flower once more in one of my 'hospital' pots where odd single corms are nursed to flowering size. Alongside it is a flower of Crocus imperati.
Tony, that's a very fine form of Alexandrii!
Mine are also flowering - but not as beautiful as yours
Poul
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Agreed, alexandrii is a stunning plant in all its forms, but Tony/Lesley's form is jaw-dropping! I only have it as three potfuls of seedlings, so hopefully something special might appear from them in a couple of year ;)
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Crocus caricus from Janis.
I have placed it in-house for some days in hope of getting seeds
Poul
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Crocus alatavicus under glass
No crocus is flowering in the garden
Poul
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What a stunning Crocus show people !!! So hard to choose from !
Here's my contribution :
Crocus biflorus ssp nubigena - can't get enough of it ! ;D
Crocus biflorus ssp parkinsonii in the garden, growing right through the cushion of Arenaria granatensis tetraquetra ;D
Crocus korolkowii albus
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Some more :
Crocus malyi with it's first flower
Crocus chrisanthus 'Herald', one of my favourite cultivars
Crocus sieberi nivalis
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Last batch :
Crocus etruscus enjoying the sunshine in the garden.... before the rain came :-\
Crocus ushakensis
Crocus biflorus ssp alexandri
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very nice Crocus from all,
here some from garden and frame
Crocus antherothes from Göktepe/ Turkey
'' hartmannianus, Cyprus
'' kerndorffiorum, Turkey
'' sublimis, Greece
'' suaveolens, seedlings from 'de Jager'
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It was a gloomy day with a kind of monsoon :-[
Hopefully in the greenhouse it's spring
Crocus sieberi sublimis
Crocus tauricus
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Crocus chrysanthus 'Constellation'
Crocus x paulineae in full bloom
Crocus chrysanthus 'Blue Peter'
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Very nice form of C. tauricus, this dark shading around throat!, Yann; and I like C. x paulinae, too. Seems that it is form raised by me to which Liga recently gave cv. name after her daughter 'Paula' - so if it came from me, must be now named Crocus x paulinae 'Paula' :D
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Yes it's a nice form, the bulbs were collected in the Ai-Petri Yayla mountains.
I also have another pot with one i bought you and it seems it's gonna be a red form, but it's still in buds.
The x paulinae was given in an exchange, but i guess it came from your nursery. So i'll rename the tag with your granddaughter's firstname. Last year it gave me few seeds but flower doesn't have so much pollen.
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Seeds from x paulinae??? With me no one , nor from two different wild collected, nor from 'Paula'.
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It was a gloomy day with a kind of monsoon :-[
Hopefully in the greenhouse it's spring
Crocus sieberi sublimis
Crocus tauricus
Brilliant form of tauricus, Yann !!
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Janis, i saw a rotten pod when i moved the pot. I could save 7 seeds, but i think 3-4 were safe. Sown them this autumn.
Do you think my bulbs are not x paulinae?
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Janis, i saw a rotten pod when i moved the pot. I could save 7 seeds, but i think 3-4 were safe. Sown them this autumn.
Do you think my bulbs are not x paulinae?
They looks as C. x paulinae. although not so compact as here (most likely too little light), occasionaly even such usually sterile hybrids can give some seed, although it is rare occasion. My recommendation - saw seeds immediately and keep pot dry to normal watering time will come in autumn. You will get far better germination rate.
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ok, keeping fringer crossed.