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mark smyth

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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2014, 08:58:07 PM »
The mark is wrong for St Anne's
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2014, 08:59:36 PM »
And finally, quite a small plant this...

It looks similar to 'Armine' but I'm not sure what the leaves should look like
http://snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20armine.html
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2014, 11:09:41 PM »
Big Thing No Label - too tall to be a Might Atom group. I'll measure the height tomorrow
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2014, 05:19:26 PM »
I got this as G. rizehensis.
But I am not sure - the leaves look supervolute to me ???
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2014, 05:27:39 PM »
I got this as G. rizehensis. But I am not sure - the leaves look supervolute to me ???

Definitely not rizehensis but what ever it is its a lovely snowdrop
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2014, 05:40:23 PM »
It looks similar to 'Armine' but I'm not sure what the leaves should look like
http://snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20armine.html
The book says 'Armine' is  "Tall, elegant-looking plant"; this one  is small and delicate.
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2014, 06:08:08 PM »
Big Thing No Label - too tall to be a Might Atom group. I'll measure the height tomorrow
Could be Bertram Anderson.
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2014, 06:08:20 PM »
Big Thing No Label - too tall to be a Might Atom group. I'll measure the height tomorrow
Could be Bertram Anderson.
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2014, 07:03:34 PM »
I never thought about Bertram Anderson.

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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2014, 10:00:18 PM »
Thinking about it it could be Bill Bishop
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2014, 10:19:53 PM »
My Bill Bishop is a very short plant, flowers only just off the ground.

Bertram Anderson is quite tall.

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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2014, 08:25:59 PM »
Can anyone recognise this lost name 'drop from Tom Mitchell:
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2014, 08:34:36 PM »
I still have a few lost label clumps to identify. Any ideas on this G. elwesii?
I dug this clump up to split it and found a label fragment which reads Galanthus elwesii 'Three Leaves', so I guess that's another one identified.
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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2014, 08:36:10 PM »
I don't recognise Tom Mitchell's 'drop but it has supervolute leaves that appear to be glaucous so it must be an elwesii.  And it is what is now referred to as an 'inverse poc.' although I'm not sure if that term had been coined when 'The Book' was written.  There are so few of those that I cannot think of any at all. 
Almost in Scotland.

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Re: Snowdrops for identification, please.
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2014, 08:41:46 PM »
... found a label fragment which reads Galanthus elwesii 'Three Leaves', so I guess that's another one identified.

Is 'Three Leaves' actually a name or merely a description?  I doubt that something so merely descriptive would be an allowed name under current rules.
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