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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: robg on June 08, 2021, 10:54:45 PM

Title: Crocus identification please
Post by: robg on June 08, 2021, 10:54:45 PM

I have a bed that is just full of this crocus in March.  I am successsfully finding seeds and it would be good to get  its 'proper' name !

Rob

Title: Re: Crocus identification please
Post by: Tristan_He on June 08, 2021, 11:53:28 PM

Hi Rob, I am no Crocus expert. However, in my experience, by far the most common spring-flowering purple crocus in the UK is C. tommasinianus, which naturalises freely in many gardens.
Best wishes, Tristan

Title: Re: Crocus identification please
Post by: robg on June 09, 2021, 02:10:58 PM

Thanks Tristan -  many thanks for that.  Unfortunately my 'bible' shows pictures of specific variants of C Tommasianus, but not the normal one, which the web shows as growing in the manner that mine does.
Rob