Crocus november 2015

[Tony Willis]

Crocus laevigatus, JJA 347.402.
Interesting for me that their pistils are vary in form.

I have just been looking at them in the wild and every one is slightly different so no surprising your variation.

Very lovely photographs.

[YT]

Thanks, Tony.

[Yann]

Tatsuo that's marvelous.

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: YT on Today at 09:19:43 AM

    Crocus laevigatus, JJA 347.402.
    Interesting for me that their pistils are vary in form.

Are these also now thought  to be C. pumilus?

[YT]

Thanks, Yann.

Are these also now thought  to be C. pumilus?

I don't think so, Maggi. JJA 347.402 is not small to say as 'pumilus'.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Yann.
I don't think so, Maggi. JJA 347.402 is not small to say as 'pumilus'.

 Thanks, Tatsuo, I thought that was the case- but better to ask you!

[papapoly]

A few hours ago I returned from a nearby mountain.  I am excited because I found Crocus macedonicus.  However, unlike last year when I reported having found it in a new area, growing abudantly in the Western foothills of Mount Olympus, today I also found it in the same general area but at a much higher altitude.  It was growing again in turf but at 1250 m.  Last year I found it in several locations but always between 400-600 m, never higher than that.

I can now pronounce Crocus macedonicus as both a species occuring in low altitudes up to the subalpine area.

I hope you enjoy the pictures (also showing the corm with tunics and some tunics removed).

George Papapolymerou

[papapoly]

Some more pictures.  Last picture is typical habitat at 1200-1250 m.  Also Crocus chrysanthus and Crocus veluchensis flower in early spring while, at low altitudes (300-700 m) some 15 km away, but in a different habitat (very rocky) Crocus mazziaricus flowers. 

pic 121 showing a corm with four flowers and one that has withered.

George Papapolymerou

[Maggi Young]

Thank you for this, George - most interesting.

[chris]

beautiful photos, here one from seed I find in my garden,

[Maggi Young]

A  very fine seedling Chris. 

[udo]

outside snow and sun, inside some new flowers:

seedling from Crocus oreocreticus ( Crocus Group ), possibly a cross with cartwrightianus
Crocus pumilus from southern Crete, near the coast

[YT]

Crocus vitellinus, from JJA 354.706 : Lebanon, M'tein. 875m. Ex. R. & R. Wallis 99-26.

[Roma]

Lovely colour, YT.

Last Crocus pulchellus for this year.  The first was in flower before the end of September.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely colour, YT.

Last Crocus pulchellus for this year.  The first was in flower before the end of September.

 That's a pretty good  flowering period for just one species, isn't it?