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Hi.Crocus in northern Alicante province, Spain, at the foot of the Sierra Mariola.Not sure about how it should be called because Flora Iberica treated all similar plants as C. serotinus but this name has been 'fixed' for the plants with reticulated fibers growing in acid sandy soils and slate on the Atlantic basin, so only Crocus salzmannii is left. Rukšans and Mathew seemed to agree on this.

Carlos



And two pics of what from now on has to be called Crocus serotinus.

Hi, after being sent a paper which changes many things on Crocus nomenclature here, I started some research.

I am looking for any of these numbers for purchase or exchange, specially the first one:

JJA352.099 : CROCUS SEROTINUS subsp. SALZMANNII Spain, Granada, Sierra Nevada below Peñones de San Francisco, 2300m. Turf in NW-facing depression. (A strongly stoloniferous race from alpine-turf. We came across it in 1970 but, other than recording its existence, no-one has thought it worth distinguishing. We have not seen any other quite like it but the C. serotinus group is more than a little complicated. Small corms with long, couch-grass-like stolons. Profuse, pale lilac flowers in autumn.)

JJA352.003 : CROCUS SEROTINUS subsp. SALZMANNII Morocco, Mischliffen = ABS4350

JJA352.004 : CROCUS SEROTINUS subsp. SALZMANNII Morocco, Ksar el Ksiba = ABS4411

JJA352.005 : CROCUS SEROTINUS subsp. SALZMANNII Morocco, Larache. Ex M.Salmon & M.Fillan = SF242.

I am gathering plants from my area and having others sent from Portugal. I might get seeds on them and I will have local salzmannii available, maybe also nevadense.

Thanks

Carlos

Congratulations!! I got three bulbs and they refuse to sprout, they might have been killed by the extreme heat of last summer, I should have unpotted them.

Carlos

I think that small form has been called Sternbergia minoica. All this "lutea complex" should be studied with a molecular approach. 

Carlos

Still Narcissus time, this has been distributed as elegans × viridiflorus but if you know both species you'll recognize a typical flower of elegans, only with a greenish hue.Viridiflorus hybrids inherit the cleft corona.

This is KV698 from Al-Hoceima, Morocco, the same area from were Narcissus elegans var. fallax was found and described by the military doctor and botanist Font Quer.

I keep wondering how many pixels must be chosen to post smaller photos, but with an acceptable quality. I prefer bigger images this time, though.

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Last image of N. deficiens:



Squilla (Urginea) numidica, as I said known in error as maritima in the US, huge stalks and big bulbs with brick-red tunics. Seed set seemed to be affected by drought and heat as well (first two photos in the same spot of the Prospero in the south on a sun-baked hill, third one on the eastern part of the island under pine trees.  One Cneorum tricoccon, very abundant on the Balearics but threatened on the continent, can be seen in the background).



Finally, the sunset from the southwesternmost tip of the island, overlooking Es Vedrà and Es Vedranell islets.



Carlos

Hi, I was lucky to spend a few days on Ibiza island and of course there's more to it than sangria, paella, sun and beach.

The autumn flowering season was in late summer this year, but there were still some flowers and anyway it's good to find geophytes with seeds...

Prospero obtusifolium, most really tiny with 4-6 flowers, they seemed to be suffering from drought and too high temperatures for this time of the year. P. autumnalis has been reported from the island but I only saw obtusifolium in three spots several km apart.



Colchicum filifolium (ex Merendera), these seemed all right



Urginea fugax, only place where it can be seen out of Northern Africa along with Corsica and Sardinia. Very difficult to spot when not in flower or with capsules.



Allium sp. maybe subhirsutum, growing on a very hard soil with calcareous incrustations just next to the Urginea, which grow on red clay



Narcissus deficiens, widespread on the island, 99% were shedding seeds or with capsules, I still captured one flower



Carlos

Ok, thanks. I dind't check where you live, a fantastic place!! 

Carlos

Hi, I found one bulb in Germany last year. It never really woke up, and two smaller plants I got just grew for a couple of months before going dormant. It seems very picky with temperatures, which maximum and minimum do you grow yours in?

Carlos

I finally got a flower on a Zephyranthes longistyla given by Uli



And Colchicum filifolium from Mallorca




Carlos

Hi, three of my mate Narcissophiles went in 2021 to the 'deep Galicia' in NW Spain and found one single hybrid cyclamineus × pseudonarcissus.

These are native here, unlike in UK, where cyclamineus is a feral plant, and maybe also pseudonarcissus. But the hybrid appeared here long ago and was namen Narcissus × monochromus.

This eas the first report of a truly wild specimen of this hybrid.

Here is the link to the paper:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12225-023-10129-5

Carlos

 Colchicum lusitanum, 'forma' gibraltaricum



Carlos

Hi, I got these Sternbergia lutea in a BX two years ago. I wonder if this clone always has eight tepals...




Carlos

I understand. I would also gladly clean the seeds up, but anyway I am not in the US. I hope someone offers Wurmbea in the future.

Carlos

Amazing! I wonder if you would like to swap some seeds of Wurmbea if you get some.

Carlos