Crocus - November 2014

[Thomas Huber]

not a Crocus, but also beautiful: Sternbergia sicula

[udo]

Thomas,
to see very nicely always, Crocus and Sternbergia in the natural location.
 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Great to see them like that Thomas.
It seems that you are right on time ? 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Pictures from this weekend ...

[Maggi Young]

The beauty of these crocus  is taking my breath away. What jewels of the flower world they are.

[Thomas Huber]

Wow Kris - mathewii is doing very well for you

Yes, I've been right in time - hadriaticus was in full flower, last of mazziaricus and first of melantherus were out on the northern mountains  In the South hadriaticus and niveus were already over, only a few last flowers were out. And I was too early for cartwrightianus 

[ruben]

Very Nice pictures Thomas! Thanks for shearing. I hope to make this trip the coming years!

[ruben]

Crocus longiflorus Nebrodi (AH 9703) in flower.

[Janis Ruksans]

After returning from Greece today was the first day with some sun and nice warm weather. So late autumn crocuses were in full bloom
Crocus laevigatus now is in full bloom. My favourite is Goldback, one of the latest between laevigatus. It is very variable species, on last two pictures forms got from Kurt Vickery (UK) and PELO-013 collected by me on Peloponesse during my first trip to Greece 6 years ago..
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

For Crocus ochroleucus it is a little too late for good pictures, but it is first moment when I can get them with nicely open flowers. As you can see typical form from wild has much wider flower segments than forms usually offered on trade. Dalton White is excellent selection  from wild made by our forumist Oron Peri.
Crocus cambessedesii just now starts to reach peak of blooming. Here you can see variation in wild stock from Maliorca. It has one of smallest flowers between crocuses comparable in size only with Cretan Crocus pumilus.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Quite recently was discovered that Crocus macedonicus has much wider distribution in Greece than was supposed by me. I just saw pictures with meadows covered by it far to South from Vertisko ridge. Greek scientists found that it has different chromosome number than Crocus pallasii although regarded it only as C. pallasii.. Some similar crocus was found even near Athens but not seeing material isn’t possible to judge about its name.
On another 2 pictures you can see very beautiful crocus collected by me as C. mazziaricus in Turkey, but it certainly it is another one, most likely new species. Still research on its identity must be done. Sorry, I’m not mentioning locality even approximately yet.
Janis.

[Janis Ruksans]

As last for today – 2 forms of Crocus cartwrightianus and 3 pictures of Crocus pumilus.
Janis

[Matt T]

As last for today – 2 forms of Crocus cartwrightianus and 3 pictures of Crocus pumilus.
Janis

Hi Janis,
Lots of flowers showing for you there. C. cartwrightianus 'Purple Heart' is a stunner. The photo of this plant in your book turned me on to this species but I've not seen 'Purple Heart' listed in your catalogue. Is it possible that Liga may list it in future?
Regards.

[Matt T]

Having been away for 2 weeks, I've missed quite a lot of flowers. However, the sights we found in the Peloponnese more than made up for that and a few plants are still pushing up flowers to greet me on my return.

Crocus tournefortii is a favourite for it's delicately coloured petals and brightly contrasting stigma, but C. ochroleucus has a simple beauty too.

[ikizzeki]

Turkey,Antalya, 09,11,2014
Crocus mathweii,
Crocus...??
Crocus and Sternbergia..