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Bulbs => Crocus => Topic started by: pehe on November 01, 2017, 05:49:20 AM
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Here are a few typical November pics from my garden: Low light, autumn leaves, closed crocus flowers and a lot of weeds...
1. Crocus kotschyanus HKEP.9205 is still flowering
2. Crocus ochroleucus with weeds and a few Galanthus Peter Gatehouse in the background
3. Crocus melantherus under glass
I have a single Crocus vallicola still flowering, while many spring flowering Crocus is showing their noses.
Poul
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during a turkish birds treck a friend collected several crocuses pods. I lost many bulbils but 3 of them survived. Here's the first flower from these pods. I'm thinking of biflorus or nerimaniae?? I've returned from page 1 to end the Janis book but still looking this answer ;D
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during a turkish birds treck a friend collected several crocuses pods. I lost many bulbils but 3 of them survived. Here's the first flower from these pods. I'm thinking of biflorus or nerimaniae?? I've returned from page 1 to end the Janis book but still looking this answer ;D
Crocus nerimaniae. There are only 2 blue autumn annulate species with black anthers - C. nerimaniae and C. wattiorum (picture attached here - easy to see differences), so identification is easy.
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nerimaniae: the stamens are shorter than the pistil, is it a always true feature?
On wattiorum the stripes are not diffused
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nerimaniae: the stamens are shorter than the pistil, is it a always true feature?
On wattiorum the stripes are not diffused
In nerimaniae basal lobes of anthers are dark, in wattiorum - yellow, nerimaniae flowers never open so widely, are more rounded. Striping can vary, but in nerimaniae stripes looks as more white on blue ground, in wattiorum stripes are dark on blue. Flowers are so different in overall view, that you never could misidentify both. Here pictures of both
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Many thanks Janis ;)
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Crocus cartwrightianus is one of only 3 species which didn't close flowers in night. In same time it is one of most variable by flower colour. Here on 4 pictures you can see 3 plants from Naxos Island collected for me by Dima.Especially like this one which is yellow in bud. They arer strongly scented.
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Another strongly scented is C. longiflorus. At Basilicata (continental Italy) it is quite variable by throat colour, on Nebrodi range (Sicily) variation isn't so wide (at least in my plants).
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I crossed one of the best Turkish Crocus pallasii s.l. forms from near Labranda with Crocus pallasii s.l. cv. 'Homeri' (pollen parent) from Chios Island (Greece, E Aegean). Here you see seedlings from this cross.
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The first is most likely new crocus species from Israel lowlands.
Still blooms Crocus caspius.
Then picture of seedling from white C. banaticus 'Snowdrift' - very few from them are white, but all keeps perfect shape of 'Snowdrift'. This autumn no one from white banaticus blooms with me at present. Here they are later bloomers than blue ones.
And as last two are forms of C. goulimyi - striped 'Agia Sofia' from Melwin and mine 'Pink Wonder' spotted in wild by Liga.
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Crocus hyremalis had too little sun to open fully, but black anthers and nice stigma are easy notable.
On other pictures various acquisitions of C. laevigatus
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Now three different acquisitions of Crocus melantherus and
two pictures of Crocus kotschyanus RUDA-117 from near Syrian border but in Turkey, very similar (practically identical) with Dirk's kotschyanus aff. originally collected by V. Pilous in same region (may be along the same road where I travelled with Augis Dambrauskas in 2003).
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The first two pictures are from Crocus ochroleucus collected near Boumana, E of Beirut, received from Jim Archibald but originally collected by R&R Wallis.
Next is the same species from Golan Heights, near Massada
The last two are C. pumilus from Crete.
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Still blooms one of Iranian crocuses of speciosus group - 16IRS-069
Crocus lycius JATU-038 in full its beauty
This form of so named "mazziaricus" comes from Cukukoy in Turkey (I got from Jim Archibald)
And something out of crocuses confirming that season is very unusual - this one most likely is new Muscari species, nicknamed as "miniarmeniacum" and normally is blooming in spring, but it blooms now.
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Nice sets Janis, :P
From you here's Crocus pallasii, ex Chios
Crocus hyemalis, ex Israel
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Yesterday we had some night frost - minus 3 C but day was sunny and so several new pictures were taken in my greenhouse.
The first is last flowers of purest white C. niveus. Although name suppose white colour, mostly flowers are slightly bluish shaded and sometimes even blue. This is one of the best purest white clones in my collection.
Crocuses at present named as C. cancellatus still contains some species. Here you can see form from Israel, which most likely can be regarded as typical cancellatus.
C. dilekyarensis is one of those separated from cancellatus group and in wild you can find it on very W of Turkey.
The last two pictures represents two acquisitions of C. damascenus from Iran - both are the first blooming in my collection.
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Some more crocuses from East
Iranian Crocus haussknechtii
2 pictures of Crocus hermoneus from Jordania
Crocus hyemalis from Israel
and more to the West - Crocus veneris from Cyprus
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Two close relatives
Crocus laevigatus from Ikaria Island - blue coloured
and Crocus pumilus from Crete
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Still blooms Crocus mathewii and here two pictures of the very best form of it cv. 'Brian Mathew'
Quite distributed in last time is cv. 'Dream Dancer'. Actually only this autumn I gave more attention to it and was surprised for white, most likely sterile anthers of it. Then I checked pictures from former years - they all had same anthers, so it is not seasonal problem. This force me to suppose that it is not pure C. mathewii but hybrid with some other species. Would be interested to know about your observations. May be it is raised by my conditions only? Although this autumn Erch Pasche sent to me few additional corms of 'Dream Dancer' and their flowers had same white, sterile anthers.
This C. pallasii s.l. very resembles C. dispathaceus but was collected near Simav, very far from traditional localities of C. dispathaceus.
And last two are pictures from Portugal crocus of serotinus group. Unfortunately I haven't their corm tunics to check netting for identification - is it salzmannii or clusii (by my memory tunics were with fine fibres, so type serotinus is excluded).
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mine have also white anthers.
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mine have also white anthers.
Seem that yours are without pollens, too.
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Here is a dark form of Crocus mathewii that I received and thought was 'Dream Dancer' it has yellow pollen that looks to be fertile so it may be another form.
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I have similarly coloured forms from wild and they all are fertile - in attached picture both flowers are from plants collected at same locality at locus classicus.
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Despite the dark and wet weather, some crocuses are shining.
Crocus biflorus ssp melantherus from seeds collected by the late Marcus Harvey in Rhodos.
Crocus hyemalis, another seedling batch
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C.asumaniae and its habitat.
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the rock background is perfect for those crocuses, did you see them near Antalya?
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Crocus cambessedesii is brightening up the cold and short day.
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From the habitat, Antalya, Turkey
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We in SRGC are delighted to learn this most exciting and very pleasant news from Latvia - Janis Ruksans' latest crocus book has been given an award from the Latvian Academy of Sciences for best achievements in biology and his book has been listed in the honorary list of 10 best publications of Academy members in the year 2017.
A wonderful acknowledgment of the calibre of Janis' work - Janis must be more than pleased to have these honours.
Well done, Janis - we are not at all surprised at this success!
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A wonderful endorsement of Janis' achievements, richly deserved!! Looking forward to seeing Janis again at Dunblane in February.