Crocus to identify? Post them here....

[Hoy]

OK Tony, thanks.
My thought was also 'Yellow Mammoth'.

Someone mentioned it could be a chrysanthus also.

[Steve Covey]

I too am guilty of not maintaining my labels and as a result this crocus has just flowered and the writing on the label has been rasped off by slugs or snails. I wondered if it might be C. cancellatus or laevigatus fonteneyi [but probably a bit early]. Any help gratefully received. Oh - I live and garden in Swindon, Wiltshire by the way if that helps with flowering times.

[sokol]

Steve, is it any Crocus cancellatus?

I have another one that I get as Crocus oreocreticus. There was just one real Crocus oreocreticus that I have successfully separarted from the shown ones.

Does anybody know what it is?

[Steve Covey]

Hi sokol, I'm not sure what species it is! Cancellatus was just a guess and I remember I did grow it. Unfortunately my collection [and garden in general] have been rather neglected over the past few years due to other commitments taking over - hence the labels becoming unreadable/disappearing. I am just getting back into it again and hate growing plants I don't know the name of  I'm also very much a beginner when it comes to Crocus ID.

[Armin]

Steve,
your 'unknown' looks like a typical C. cancellatus ssp. mazziaricus.

Sokol,
looks like nice C. hadriaticus but not oreocreticus.

[Steve Covey]

That's great! Thanks Armin. Not shown in the shot is the base of the flower - which has both bract and bracteole visible!

[Armin]

Steve, lucky strike 

[Steve Covey]

 

[Janis Ruksans]

I too am guilty of not maintaining my labels and as a result this crocus has just flowered and the writing on the label has been rasped off by slugs or snails. I wondered if it might be C. cancellatus or laevigatus fonteneyi [but probably a bit early]. Any help gratefully received. Oh - I live and garden in Swindon, Wiltshire by the way if that helps with flowering times.

Crocus mazziaricus ? (cancellatus group)

[Janis Ruksans]

Steve, is it any Crocus cancellatus?

I have another one that I get as Crocus oreocreticus. There was just one real Crocus oreocreticus that I have successfully separarted from the shown ones.

Does anybody know what it is?

Not oreocreticus. Could be hadriaticus

[sokol]

I have got the first Crocus asumaniae as a bulbs, the second as seeds from V. Pilous. I wonder if the first really is this species.

[sokol]

From seeds, collected in Greece, probably from Evia I have got a pot full of Crocus boryi. Last year appeared a seedling sligthly tinted violet and with stripes outside. Is this just a variation of Crocus boryi or could this be a hybrid with Crocus laevigatus?

[ruben]

Does the flower closes at night? I think boryi x tournefortii

[sokol]

Thx, good idea because of the style. I saw the differences but I didn't draw the right conclusion. The flower is still open while the others are all closed. But the flower is now withering and this also could be the reason. I hope to see a second flower to be quite sure.

[ruben]

Yes i also tought because of the style! Also hopen for a second flower. Then you could know for 100% (if flowers closes or stays open)