Crocus January 2017

[Maggi Young]

In contrast to Steve's crocus with black anthers, here is Crocus chrysanthus 'Sunspot' with black stigma.

Elsewhere there was a discussion as to whether or not 'Sunspot' was still considered a cultivar of  C. chrysanthus  - I replied, quoting from this forum some time ago  that : the late Marcus Harvey once wrote in error - and quickly retracted, that Crocus chrysanthus "Sunspot" was related to the newly named Crocus muglaensis.

 Now Janis has also replied:

 Not easy to give correct reply. According Bob Potterton (private communication during some of Early Spring Bulb meetings in UK) it comes from Gembos Yayla near Akseki in Turkey. I found there similar individuals, too. If it is so - then it belongs and must be named as cv of Crocus gembosii. In any case it is not C. chrysanthus - different from typical European C. chrysanthus by several features (as all Turkish so named C. chrysanthus), and Sunspot belongs to Turkish group of yellow flowering annulate crocuses.

[Tony Willis]

Crocus x gotoburgensis first one to flower this year. My own hybrid

[Maggi Young]

Super shots, Tony!
 When I first saw this  hybrid some years ago  I was unsure as to whether I liked it or not - it is certainly very striking but I thought it a bit "odd". Now I have come to like it  and I know that many of the F2 hybrids are even lovelier. Isn't it great that one can teach an old dog new tricks?!!
 

[ruben]

woow tony! Perhaps the best coloured crocus i've ever seen!!!

[Tony Willis]

Maggi i think we are all allowed to change our minds on what we like. It is very variable and some are hardly distinguishable from Crocus scardicus but others are like this one.

I think I am still a year off flowering the f2 hybrids,something I said last year!

i have managed to cross a white C. pelistericus with C. scardicus and it will be interesting to see what they are like.

[Maggi Young]

I'll be looking  forward to seeing the first flowers - when they deign to arrive, Tony!

[Janis Ruksans]

Crocus x gotoburgensis first one to flower this year. My own hybrid

Excellent! And quite typical F-1 generation seedling from this cross.
Janis

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Crocus x gotoburgensis first one to flower this year. My own hybrid

Really a super Crocus Tony !  Respect !

[Cfred72]

Excuse my question. It is a hybrid between which Crocus and what other?

[Maggi Young]

 Fred, it is  between C. scardicus and C. pelistericus

[Cfred72]

Thank you, Maggi. They can be seen in the bulb log of April 08, 2004

[Tony Willis]

Fred, it is  between C. scardicus and C. pelistericus

It does not seem to matter which is the seed parent or the pollen parent the offspring look much the same. I have mainly used C.pelistericus as the seed parent as I have more of them and so the pollen from one C. scardicus can be used on several  flowers.

[Michael J Campbell]

Crocus Malyi

[ruben]

Plants are growing like hell! They have to catch up one month!! Some flowers of the day

Crocus fleischeri from gulek pass
Crocus korolkowii from Mongol tau Uzbekistan
Crocus suaveolens 'De Jager'
Crocus ushakiensis

[Maggi Young]

A treat to see your crocus  growing and  opening in the sun , Ruben. Dark wet and generally horrible here in Aberdeen - I don't blame our plants for staying underground!