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Dima, seeing these wonderful crocus in the wild prompts me to post some pictures of my plants in the last few weeks.Crocus vallicolaCrocus autraniiCrocus scharojanii
Cyril,I can only repeat what others have said - stunning to see a pot full of C. scharojanii flowers. Well done!Could you tell us how you grow them so well? It is not the easiest one to deal with.Poul
Dirk, here I find Crocus scharojanii does not flower all together regularly, i.e. flowers usually appear in succession, a bit like C. autranii. It is however still more reliable than the spring flowering C. scardicus.
Cyril,with me it is exactly different, Crocus scardicus blossom everybody at the same time. Indeed, is there only one clone, with Crocus autranii and scharojanii these are different seedlings.
Regarding Crocus karduchorum - there are some problems. I have stock collected by Stevens, Archibald, Seisums - SASA-102 - at locus classicus which looks close to cappadocicus, but stigma is much more divided. I still have original plants (not seedlings) and I'm always doubtful about name. Just now I compared both again. SASA - 102 has dark yellow spots at base, petals intensively striped, stigma much divided creamy. Seedlings repeat mother plants. Cappadocicus has much less divided deep yellow to orange yellow stigma. Kotschyanus is not growing side by side with karduchorum. So it is questionable plant. What really is SASA-102?I have other acquisitions of karduchorum, too - they are very pale with white throat, stigma from pure white to creamy, allways much divided.Janis
Perhaps this species is more variable than first thought?Poul
A very easy species, but beautiful none the less. Crocus kotschyanus subsp. kotschyanus. (Attachment Link)