Crocus October 2017

[pehe]

It is a strange season. Crocus vallicola is still flowering, months later than usual.
The late spring flowering Crocus minimus has leaves, C. tauricus is almost in bud and C. cvijicii is above ground.
But these behave normal:
Crocus ochroleucus
Crocus robertianus
Crocus wattiorum

Poul

[Janis Ruksans]

It is a strange season. Crocus vallicola is still flowering, months later than usual.
The late spring flowering Crocus minimus has leaves, C. tauricus is almost in bud and C. cvijicii is above ground.
But these behave normal:
Crocus ochroleucus
Crocus robertianus
Crocus wattiorum

Poul

The same with me - vallicola 2 stocks still in full flower. From spring bloomers only suaveolens at this moment showed leaf tips. Others still are underground. Very surprised about your tauricus. Never saw it in autumn. C. minimus here is bertween the latest spring bloomers (wild forms) - it bloomed with me even in mid-May.

[krecekB]

Single alternative could be blue form of niveus, although then stigma must be more divided. Of course you could identify by corms. No one other crocus has so polished corm tunics as goulimyi, very different from finely reticulated tunics of niveus. Branching of stigma can vary and is something unclear on your pictures. Just where in Pellopones you collected it?

It was collected in southern Mani, on the same place was Crocus niveus. Previous photo was taken by mobile, now it should by better.

[krecekB]

A few crocuses from the garden

[pehe]

The same with me - vallicola 2 stocks still in full flower. From spring bloomers only suaveolens at this moment showed leaf tips. Others still are underground. Very surprised about your tauricus. Never saw it in autumn. C. minimus here is bertween the latest spring bloomers (wild forms) - it bloomed with me even in mid-May.

These C. minimus from Dirk flowered in April this spring, so I am very surprised too. C. tauricus (which I got from Augi last year) flowered in February this spring. My suaveolens has also leaves now, but that is not unusual, as they sometimes flower before X-mas.

Poul

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Crocus flowers from all! an inspiration to grow more from seeds.

Meanwhile, in September I bought few packets with the label - C. zonatus pink (which I google and saw the name is kotschyanus) but now they flower and look like C. ochroleucus if I'm not wrong? I have C. ochroleucus from previous year but not flowering yet. They are terrible with names here (Dutch stock); C. speciosus is still sold as C. sativus....

[Janis Ruksans]

It was collected in southern Mani, on the same place was Crocus niveus. Previous photo was taken by mobile, now it should by better.

99.99% - Crocus niveus.

[Janis Ruksans]

These C. minimus from Dirk flowered in April this spring, so I am very surprised too. C. tauricus (which I got from Augi last year) flowered in February this spring. My suaveolens has also leaves now, but that is not unusual, as they sometimes flower before X-mas.

Poul

With me earliest is C. hittiticus, quite often blooming starts even at Christmas, but mostly in January and with frosts it is covered in full blooms.

[Janis Ruksans]

Beautiful Crocus flowers from all! an inspiration to grow more from seeds.

Meanwhile, in September I bought few packets with the label - C. zonatus pink (which I google and saw the name is kotschyanus) but now they flower and look like C. ochroleucus if I'm not wrong? I have C. ochroleucus from previous year but not flowering yet. They are terrible with names here (Dutch stock); C. speciosus is still sold as C. sativus....

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Looks like C. ochroleucus

[sokol]

99.99% - Crocus niveus.

Why not Crocus goulimyi? The style overtops the anthers just a bit and is not much divided. Maybe a bit too much?

[Janis Ruksans]

Why not Crocus goulimyi? The style overtops the anthers just a bit and is not much divided. Maybe a bit too much?

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Leaves! In goulimyi always they are developed at blooming time (I never saw goulimyi in flowers without leaves), but exact identification will be done after checking corm tunics.

[Gail]

Crocus tournefortii VISA 08-50

[Gabriela]

Looks like C. ochroleucus

Thank you Janis. Although I'm not a Crocus collector I like to know what grows in the garden.
Today I found another group flowering (from the same packets of 'Crocus zonatus - pink') and they look different. Maybe this is kotschyanus? Pictures not very good, they are not white, with a tinge of lilac.

[sokol]

Leaves! In goulimyi always they are developed at blooming time (I never saw goulimyi in flowers without leaves), but exact identification will be done after checking corm tunics.

Thank you Janis. You know where to look at and we all can learn nearly every day from you.

[Rafa]

Crocus mathewii, It must be a very easy species to grow, because this clump blooms every year without any special care