Fritillaria 2010

[Gerry Webster]

Grown from seed and flowering now.  I am really good at losing labels, any help would be much appreciated.

Mike

Mike it could be F. kotschyana. It would be helpful to see the nectaries & stigma.

[Mike Ireland]

Thanks Gerry, I'll post more photos.

Mike

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Robin. Yes the snow has all gone here except in the mountains- we had temperatures up to 24C over the last few days and thankfully the snow you had was only snow above 2000m so we have had some lovely heavy rain!
Mike, that is a very robust looking plant. Well done.

[Herminarik]

Good evening,

Thank to all of you for help with the identification of Fritillaria stenathera. Yesterday I photographed the other Fritilarias – the first one I received as Fritillaria zagrica (from Lorestan) and the other as Fritillaria chlorantha aff. from Kordestan. Could anybody help me yet with this identification please? Thanks Igor.

[Janis Ruksans]

Good evening,

Thank to all of you for help with the identification of Fritillaria stenathera. Yesterday I photographed the other Fritilarias – the first one I received as Fritillaria zagrica (from Lorestan) and the other as Fritillaria chlorantha aff. from Kordestan. Could anybody help me yet with this identification please? Thanks Igor.

Dear Herminarik, You must change your supplier! Under name of zagrica you got F.pinardii. It is very common species comparing with not so often offered zagrica. True zagrica has yellow tips of tepals (see attached picture). As quite rare chlorantha you got very usual F. crassifolia kurdica. Picture of true chlorantha made in Gothenburg Botanic Garden attached.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Herminarik,
Both crassifolia and pinardii are very variable. Here some forms of those showing some variability.
janis

[chasw]

A little late compared to some but here is one of my Raddeana

[TheOnionMan]

Herminarik,
Both crassifolia and pinardii are very variable. Here some forms of those showing some variability.
janis

Interesting seeing the variability, I like the F. pinardii forms.  Here's a form of F. crassifolia kurdica that I've been growing for years, very small thing.  It's in bud now, this photo taken a few years ago.

[Herminarik]

Dear Janis, thank you very much for help. Third I have yet one other Fritillaria species as I have no idea what kind of Fritillaria it could be. Maybe Fritillaria crassifolia dark form?

PS: Fortunately I order quite soon and with pleasure the bulbs or species without name or labelled only “it could be xy. So in this case I do not feel cheated and time-to-time it is quite thrilling to wait what exactly has I received. But to tell the truth I will be very grateful for a few fresh seeds of true Fr. zagrica and Fr. chlorantha.

[ichristie]

Hi all, I hope you have escaped the very wild storm we have had today, freezingcold winds lots of snow and the wind has left a trail of distruction. Many trees blow down roads blocked we lost our poly tunnel and I have spent half a day clearing up broken glass from around the glasshouses. I do not think we have a good flower head left outside anywhere such a pity as some were just reaching the best time. I post a few Fritillaria pictures which were in a glasshouse which escaped the storm for now. Sometimes you could give up but then you see a beautiful flower tucked under a bush just perfact because of the shelter then you think well if that little flower can survive then so can I. Always next year. The pictures are all forms of Frit. sewerzowii. cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Ragged Robin]

Hi Ian, what a tragedy to have your poly tunnel and glasshouses and garden so badly damaged in the recent snow storms and bad weather but your optimism in the onslaught of all this and your vision of what is important is remarkable...I do hope you find many such plants and surprising survivals to ease the loss.

[Lesley Cox]

My commiserations Ian. Such a heart-breaking thing to happen and one could weep to see flowers one treasures broken and destroyed. Thank goodness for your indomitable spirit to overcome these setbacks. Farmers and gardeners who always depend on the weather and are so often forced into unwanted paths, must be the strongest people in the world, mentally.

[ichristie]

Hi, thanks very much, I am pleased to say that the storm has died down they say March comes in like a lamb and goes out like a lion well that was some angry lion. I have seen some Corydalis still looking O/K and the Erythroniums are just damaged on the leaf hope by the end of the week to see some flowers, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Mike Ireland]

Gerry does this help with the I/D of Frit. kotschyanus?

Mike

[Sinchets]

Flowering here now are:
Fritillaria sewerzowii outside on a seaonally slope.
Fritillaria bucharica in the xeric garden. It doesn't look like much, but this is the first flower on what was a bulb which had been 'lost'. I am happy to see it didn't give up the ghost.