G. nivalis fl.pl. with green tips

[Erjal]

Hello!
 Last spring I found a mysterious looking snowdrop in my garden, which is situated at the south coast of Finland. Here have grown Galanthus nivalis and G. nivalis flore pleno for about twenty years and later also elwesii and some plicatus. With nivalis there has been no problems, nivalis flore plena grows also well, but may in some places make clumps, that have few and small flowers and the leaves are longer than usual.

This peculiar-looking snowdrop looks a bit like those flore plenos that do not flower well: it is long-leaved, and the flowers are quite small. But in addition this has green tips in every flower. It is a large clump growing inside a rose-bush, where it can have grown years unnoticed, that I doubt however.

I took it up, when the leaves had vanished, and it was an allmost stone-hard clump, large as a fist. I divided it and replanted the bulbs with more room

I have read somewhere on this forum, that galanthus suffering from stress can get green tips. Poor plant, if that is the case. We already have the harsh climate.

I am new here and impressed about all the knowledge of snowdrops that  you members have, and hope, that somebody has experience of this kind of thing too and can lighten it for me a bit.

I try to attach two pictures, hope, that it suceeds.

[Erjal]

Here is he other picture

[Alan_b]

A Galanthus nivalis (single form) with green tips is the oldest known cultivar of Galanthus nivalis.  That cultivar is named 'Scharlockii' and apart from the green tips it has a very large split spathe.  It was named in 1868, apparently.  There is a double form of this snowdrop but that has the same elongated split spathe - which your snowdrop does not.

There are also a range of double snowdrops supposed to have been bred by crossing Galanthus plicatus with the double form of Galanthus nivalis.  Many of these have green tips on the outer petals but have reasonably large flowers.

If your snowdrop is a pure nivalis then there are cultivars with this characteristic, such a 'Pusey Green Tips'.  But I imagine what you have is something that arose spontaneously in your garden.  As such, it is interesting but with large leaves and small flowers it would perhaps not be particularly garden-worthy.