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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: chasw on February 16, 2018, 04:39:27 PM

Title: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: chasw on February 16, 2018, 04:39:27 PM

Has anyone a photograph of this plant please.........................thanks

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: Maggi Young on February 16, 2018, 04:53:27 PM

There's a photo here , Chas .... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11488.msg297980#msg297980 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11488.msg297980#msg297980)
 Seemingly  now called  Fieldgate Forte, according to that thread.


 Fieldgate Forte  can be seen ... here

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14985.msg369498#msg369498 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14985.msg369498#msg369498)

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15188.msg373622#msg373622 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15188.msg373622#msg373622)

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12754.msg325874#msg325874 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12754.msg325874#msg325874)

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5090.msg145390#msg145390 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5090.msg145390#msg145390)         and so on!

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: chasw on February 16, 2018, 05:22:54 PM

Thanks Maggi,.....hmmm will get a picture of mine totally different

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: Maggi Young on February 22, 2018, 06:54:36 PM

Chas' pic of his plant ....

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Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: steve owen on February 22, 2018, 08:44:52 PM

So not Fieldgate Forte. Further attempts at ID difficult because the outer segments come across as cream, so presumably the green markings on the outers aren't the true colour either.

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: annew on February 22, 2018, 10:09:30 PM

Photos of Fieldgate Forte and Fortissimo - the later taken at the National Collection.

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2018, 09:21:01 AM

Can anyone explain to me please, in words I'm capable of understanding, why one differs from 'tother?

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: steve owen on February 23, 2018, 08:02:30 PM

Quote from: annew on February 22, 2018, 10:09:30 PM

taken at the National Collection.

There's more than one.

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: Maggi Young on February 24, 2018, 01:20:42 PM

Posts on this  query from Chas  on Facebook .... where he had posted  his photo, not being sure how to do so here.
I felt these comments  from FB were  relevant here, where Chas made his initial query.

Josh Nelson: Watching with interest as I have very similar, labeled as Fieldgate Forte but different in extent of green (like this) to my other Fieldgate Forte, where the green on the outers is much more restricted to the base and apex


Matt Bishop:  Both are now ‘Fieldgate Forte’. I mistakenly believed that more heavily marked flowers from immature bulbs, which is extremely rare, represented a mutation or seedling of the original ‘Fieldgate Forte’. This material became ‘Fieldgate Fortissimo’ until I realised they were the same thing and owned up to my error!

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: David Nicholson on February 24, 2018, 05:15:03 PM

Well there you are and didn't even need the help of Facetwit!

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: annew on February 27, 2018, 05:11:30 PM

Quote from: steve owen on February 23, 2018, 08:02:30 PM

There's more than one.

replace 'the' with 'a'

Title: Re: Fieldgate Fortissimo
Post by: Josh Nelson on March 02, 2018, 11:37:52 PM

Here is my Fieldgate Forte clone of the Fortissimo marking type; it's much more extensively marked with green than on my other two.  First is mature bulb, then the younger bulb: