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I think it is blossfeldiae. Different clones / strains can wake up at different times.

I think that the first two photos on the wiki feature blossfeldiae as well. Blossfeldiae offsets freely and lives at near sea level, often on sandy soil above the tidal level, and the described site in Hawai'i just matches that habitat.

Puniceum has a paraperigone with bristles (fimbriated) and blossfeldiae does not, if I remember well.

Crocus carpetanus at over 1000 m in NE Portugal. One of the two winter-flowering Crocus in the Iberian peninsula, the other one being C. nevadense. Took by a contact.

In Spain

Hi, I can probably get small macowanii and bulbispermum grown from seeds from plants / seeds ex Silverhill, I think. How are things in Canada about receiving bulbs?

Lovely stuff

still in love with Romuleas and Narcissus 


Clusiana from Gibraltar, these come from the first seeds I got in an SX, from Gibraltar ex Oron Peri through Uli Urban.



Requienii



Tempskyana from Pamphylia, Turkey



Ramiflora wild, yesterday


Gagea foliosa



Moraea sisyrinchium. I hope to be back when those thousands of plants are in flower. 



Drimia purpurascens

Madeira is like the Azores. I am not sure, but they also have specific regulations within Portugal, like we have with the Canaries. 

I would be eager to send them to you from Spain, but I have the same problem as I have with Canarius: they won't ship to contintental Spain. 

But if I ever order again, I will tell you, as I can have them sent to Faro in the Algarve, then to Spain. I could then send your share to you. Only that he did not reply to my last emails. 

Carlos

Nive Romulea @Too Many Plants! 

Side view of R. crocea



Narcissus gaditanus. The smell apparently shifts from a quite typical jonquil smell to somethimg similar to effervescent vitamin C pills.




Narcissus romieuxii zaianicus. Surprisingly similar to the blancoi found in Spain.



And Tulipa agenensis 'sharonensis', a fantastic tulip from the Palestinian coast which is showy and has a reasonable size, but does not need a cold winter. There are very few tulips which can be grown well in zone 10, but this one seems just right.

@CG100  I will have a try.Romulea from the northern hemisphere continue to baffle me.. Romulea grandiscapa is a stunner from the Canary islands, it perhaps produces the widest flower in this area. Strangely, it has been lumped as a variety / subspecies of R. Columnae, which has flowers that fit in a 10 cents coin (a bit bigger than a dime).




Romulea ramiflora, two accessions (one is sold as 'rollii' from Chios island by Oron Peri, but it's obviously not).




Romulea malenconiana from Morocco. I was lucky enough to get one strain / clone collected by Salmon, Bird and Lovell and still true to type. It has an amazing feathering combined with wite. Some say that it belongs in ligustica, but I din't think so.



Some individuals of malenconiana are just incredible, like this one:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/150305077

More R. leichtliniana, two plants with different colours.



And a comparison between 'true' bulbocodium and the eastern leichtliniana.

Hi. Not an autonomous region like Madeira in Portugal, but there are specific phytosanitary regulations for exchanges with and from the mainland. These regulations can only affect operations within the country, but have no force between other countries, as that would be against the free circulation of goods witin the EU.

So we have the absurd situation that some pests not regulated by EU laws can enter the Canaries from third countries (and they do), but not from mainland Spain, and vice-versa. Let's make Spain great again...

The solution is to have someone order from outside Spain and ship again, but you have to bother the person and I still have not tried (I have more interesting plants to be imported from South Africa, for example).

Thanks, but it's not so easy. Canarius don't ship to peninsular Spain, and they just did not answer my emails.

I will someday ask a friend in Portugal to order for me.

Carlos

Hi, I am interested, too

Ah, yes, I always forget that you are in the UK...

I only have one accession of jonquilla, it came from a village in Madrid province, probably from a wild population.i have never searched for offsets but I have to repot them and I will have a look.

That dwarf Petasites must be lovely...

Hi @CG100 

I'd like to send you some seeds of greatly scented Narcissus. You should smell broussonetii, also jonquilla and obsoletus.

Tête-à-tête is basically a pseudonarcissus, so wild seeds should give scented plants. I have a bit old seeds which I could send now, if you have cool springs they could still grow a bulb big enough to survive the summer. I can ask for fresh seeds to sow in autumn, as well.

Interesting. My smell has always been good, something that I shared with my mother. She only used very faint fragrances as many could cause her a headache, and I'm the same.

Smell has been neglected by botanists as dried plants only smell of dry plants, but in Narcissus it is tremendously important. Well, quite important.

For example, different strains of bulbocodium have marked differences, from no smell to an 'insecticide' smell going through a quite pleasant one. Of course, to some extent it depends on each nose...

My last suprise was with calcicola, which has a mixture of paint and some other chemical. I wonder which insects are attracted to that. But cuatrecasasii in the same section  has a pleasant smel...

Hi

Cantabricus: foxy smell, rather unpleassnt

Bastitanus: lighter foxy smell, sometimes more pleasant

Montielanus: good smell