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Hello to all crocus -friends!Zhirair - a very nice collection of speciosus!I have problems to see the difference at my speciosus.Here photos of Cr. serotinos ssp. salzmannii.I hope they are real... and Cr.speciosus `Aitchinsonii` (?)Kind regards- Daniel
More of the same here in California - The Dutch bulbs, many times, are not true to name. All the autumn blooming crocus I have brought recently have been C speciosus. It doesn't matter what the label states.
Hi Zhirair.A really lovely collection of Crocus speciosus you have. Like you I also find this species among the best in autumn !The plant that I have here as Aichinsonii is just coming into flower while Oxonian and Aino - which are flowering now with your Poolux - are long over. Furthermore my plants seem to have a brighter flowerbase, as far as I can judge from your photo of Pollux, so I don't think they are the same, even if the style looks the same... don't you have 'my' Aichinsonii anymore - I could send you some corms for comparision if you want.I'm not sure if anybody can judge these old speciosus cultivars as true or not - I have received so many named cultivars from different sources and seldom they looked alike. Old photos or paintings from the original plants (Artabir registered in 1896, Aichinsonii in 1891!) I have never seen and even Johann van Scheepen from the KAVB doesn't have reliable material for comparision when we discussed about speciosus cultivars some years ago. I guess that only Oxonian (1945 registered) is true. Meanwhile I simply enjoy the good forms of these wonderful plants that I have obtained and selected - no matter what their name is. Especially your selections do make a very good show but from your photos Cassiope and Aino do look very alike....Some years ago I found a plant with short but very strong flower tubes and dark veined petals. The tubes still stand strong when the flower is already withered.... ! I don't know what it is, but this plant must have been in cultivation in Holland from where I received it... Together with Artabir from Augis and Oxonian this is one of my favourites.
Nice flowers...OK.But if I go to restaurant and order a beef steak I don't want to have a chicken cutlet - even if both tastes good.When I buy pulchellus I want pulchellus and when I buy ochroleucus I want them.Daniel