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Title: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on October 25, 2008, 11:22:51 PM

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Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 27, 2008, 03:01:27 AM
I'm sure you are not the only person wanting some of those Rodger. :)
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on October 28, 2008, 01:19:15 AM
Undoubtedly you are right, Lesley, but you never know who's growing (say) Orphanidesia gaultherioides, gets masses of good seed every year, and doesn't realize what they have.

Orphanidesia may in fact be out of cultivation now. In Holubec & Křivka's beautiful book The Caucasus and its Flowers, the illustration of Orphanidesia is a drawing. It's the only plant in the book without a photograph, to my recollection.

Yet back in the 1930s or thereabouts, a (now long-gone) alpine nursery here was selling it for a dollar a pop at a Saturday farmers' market -- so an old timer tells me.

Myself, I'm gradually working up a stock of Anemone caucasica, as it enjoys my conditions. So far, sadly, the seedlings have all been blue like their parents. And the young tubers are so small they must be pot grown for several years before planting them out.
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 28, 2008, 02:51:57 AM
Well certainly my own Epigaea asiatica sets plenty of seeds and is self fertile. I'm amazed that every flower seems to swell out into a globular fruit, so why not E. gaultherioides too? (syn. Orphanidesia gaultherioides.) I'm pretty sure there have been plants at UK shows in recent years, say the last 2-3, so maybe it's still around. Maggi will know. ;)
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: The Russian on October 29, 2008, 06:57:07 PM
Probably next year I can send you a tuber of the white A. caucasica.
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: gote on November 27, 2008, 03:05:46 PM
Roger,
Have you tried Holubec's catalogue?
If they are not there maybe he knows a source.
Göte
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Hjalmar on December 19, 2008, 11:49:13 AM
Erythronium caucasicum is on Pilous' list, which I recieved today.
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Maggi Young on December 19, 2008, 12:04:41 PM
Quote from: Hjalmar on December 19, 2008, 11:49:13 AM
Erythronium caucasicum is on Pilous' list, which I recieved today.


 See this thread here, also : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2808.0
Title: Re: Caucasian seeds sought
Post by: Zdenek on December 19, 2008, 01:49:45 PM
Rodger,
I grow Erythronium caucasicum and in this year I collected first three seeds (I am sorry, other I lost). So if I will have some crop in the next year ....
I grow also a caucasian Cyclamen which I label C. abchasicum but I am not sure if it is not one from the other two. It was collected many years ago in Caucasus but I don't know in what area. I enclose here a photo. It is quite weedy in our garden.
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