Identification Galanthus

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Martin, yes I think it is Tubby Merlin I faintly remember buying a bulb last year.

Thanks Martin and Ashley I do think my other lost label is woronowii. I did take another picture of the inners today but it's so bad I daren't post it but I have compared it to the pic shown on Mark's Site and it seems to be the one.

[Gerard Oud]

I found this elwesii in the garden with no label!
Any ideas!

[Alan_b]

 I always imagine that an elwesii with such a nivalis-like marking is actually a nivalis-elwesii hybrid.  Could it be an accidental hybrid or must it be a named variety?

[mark smyth]

It does have a long face but I dont think I have ever seen it before

[Gordon Cottis]

Got this Snowdrop many years ago from a Czech Rockgarden friend as Galanthus spec.
collected from Caucasus. The plants grow rather slow and are not very floriferous.
Can anybody of the expert maybe identify it?

Looks like G. rizehensis. Most of the plants in cultivation in UK are from Turkey this one looks to have a larger flower. People who have seen them in the wild might be able to comment.

[Gerard Oud]

I thought i had bought this one as a named one and forgot where it stood in the garden, maybe its a new one!

[bulborum]

For me it looks like G. elwesii var. monostictus
The pictures are from G. elwesii var. monostictus which I bought in a wholesale store
probably  wild collected bulbs. I bought the whole bag in 2008 with 250 bulbs  and You see
the result.
the close-up is G. rizehensis

Roland

[Alan_b]

For me it looks like G. elwesii var. monostictus...

Nice picture, Roland; but if Gerard's mystery snowdrop is a pure elwesii then it is var. monostictus (meaning a single mark) by definition.  All your photographs show interesting variations on the monostictus theme (apart from the albino which is more of a none-ostictus).  I just thought the mark on Gerard's snowdrop looked particularly nivalis-like. 

[Gerard Oud]

That is what i thought too Alan.
Very nice pics of those different monosticti, esspecially the nonstictus albino Roland!

[bulborum]

Pity but it is not an albino as you can see in the details
but still not a bad plant I was happy to see it in flower
hoop-fully it will set seeds

Roland

[mark smyth]

Roland Sibbertoft White, also an albino, keeps very small marks like your elwesii

[Gordon Cottis]

Got this Snowdrop many years ago from a Czech Rockgarden friend as Galanthus spec.
collected from Caucasus. The plants grow rather slow and are not very floriferous.
Can anybody of the expert maybe identify it?

Looks like G. rizehensis. Most of the plants in cultivation in UK are from Turkey this one looks to have a larger flower. People who have seen them in the wild might be able to comment.

Second thoughts it might be lagodechianus. "The only species that one is likely to confuse with Galanthus rizehensis is the closely related G. lagodechianus. Indeed these species are sometimes so similar that is difficult to tell them apart" (Davis 'The Genus Galanthus').
My geography isn't all that hot but rizehensis has a distribution in 'the Western Transcaucasus while lagodechianus comes from high altitude locations in the |Caucasus

[Eric Locke]

Any thoughts on this would be most gratefull.
This very large flowered Snowdrops has appeared through a large Daphne and must have been there for some time as a small clump has developed .I can find no sign of a label and it is possible this is a seedling.
Flowers are as large if not larger than any snowdrop in my collection or any I have seen before.

Eric

[mark smyth]

I could be wrong but to me it looks like an extremely well marked elwesii Green Tip. If it isnt it's one of the best green tips I've seen
http://www.snowdropinfo.com/elwesii-greentip.html

[Eric Locke]

These flowers measure around 40 cm x 40 cm and gave me a real if pleasant surprise when I noticed them yesterday.                I DO MEAN 40MM OF COARSE 

Eric