Fritillaria-2008

[Michael]

Sorry for the same pic twice

Oh you can post them as many times you want, regarding myself i do not get tired of admiring them over and over again.

[Rob]

Agh! I found out what was eating my Fritillaria meleagris

I put the lily beetle on a daffodil leaf for the photograph, and then squashed it.

[Lesley Cox]

I know they're great eaters and I'm Sooo glad we don't have them, but you have to admit, he's very handsome in that smart red colouring.

[olegKon]

Agree with you, Lesley, handsome if you don't think of their awful larvae eating everything around. Here the frit season is in full swing. Is the frit marked as fr.messanensis really messanensis?

[Gerry Webster]

Is the frit marked as fr.messanensis really messanensis?

OlegKon - I suspect not. Maybe one of the F. montana complex?
Your frits are really nice. F. drenovskii is one of my favourites - a very elegant plant.

[Rafa]

Some pictures of Fritillaria legionensis form my friend Jose Manuel García.

[Gerdk]

Rafa,
Are you aware that these pics make me very nervous?
So different colours!

Gerd

[Gerdk]

I add a pic of Fritillaria pyrenaica from yesterday.
May I call it a yellow form?

Gerd

[Gerry Webster]

I add a pic of Fritillaria pyrenaica from yesterday.
May I call it a yellow form?

Gerd, why not? See Rix & Phillips 'The Bulb Book' p. 93

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely yellow Gerd. I'm delighted to see all that colour variation. Is it within a single species or is there some hybridization here. I'd be interested to hear what Ian Y has to say aout these pictures.

[Gerdk]

OK, Gerry, thank you (saw the picture). I expected a more golden yellow - this is my constant addiction to perfectionism.

Lesley,
The plant is a result of a hand pollination between 2 nearly yellow plants of pure F. pyrenaica. Only one yellow came up, the rest was dark or only somewhat lighter than typical plants.

Gerd

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Gerd. I was getting the posts mixed up and it was really Rafa's pics with the wild frits I wondered about. In the final pic, is that a hybrid swarm or just natural variation within a species?

[Hans A.]

  - Rafa, great pics - thanks for sharing them. So variable can be one species?

[Ian Y]

Some pictures of Fritillaria legionensis form my friend Jose Manuel García.

Great pictures as always Rafa and a very interesting looking population. Are you sure we are looking at only one species?
Pictures 3 and 4 look to me a bit like F. pyrenaica so could we be seeing Fritillaria legionensis and pyrenaica and a series of intermediates?

[Rafa]

Yes Ian, it is possible, certenly there are Frits with last leave divided and bigger in size (corresponding to F. legionensis) and also some others really different. Maybe they could produce hybrids?