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Welcome to the forum. As this forum is being used by an international community it would be great if you would specify where ,,here" is....... And it is also nice to know a name. You can set up an automatic signature like in this reply so that you do not need to do that in every individual post.
Your question is very good and once your locality is clear you should get a friendly reply. 

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Hi guys!

I'm new to this forum. Only got an account a little while ago. But I have a question. Does anyone here grow any other species of crocus that's not sativus? Does anyone have any experience with them? And do you guys know of anyone who sells or donates them? 

I know I've posted my Ferraria crispa Burm. ssp. nortieri already in this months post, maybe even started in last months post, but had to share it's quite impressive staying power, compared to my many other Ferraria. AND...TONS of fragrant flowers too!

Kohleria warczewiczii (sorry about the name...) in flower. The color combination is great. The plant is quite tall and does not produce many rhizomes and has no dormancy. Very easy from cuttings. I replace my plant regularly with new cuttings.

I recently saw a photo of a 'Tractema verna' which looked like your plant, and matches plants in our Cantabrian coast, but it's not like the Tractema verna from central Europe, with quite wide leaves (I can't grow it here, so I have never seen the plant physically).

Note: modern genetic studies, even by different teams, have confirmed the splitting of Scilla, so I will use Scilla only when appropriate. It's not my fault if Kew (who are not God) are not up-to-date. I am a botanist and I must follow what science is telling. Of course Scilla is a valid name (only inaccurate and misleading) and it can be used, I will respect that, but I ask for respect to my position as well.

Last fall I planted out these no name bulb which bloom for the first time this year.  No idea what it is. I've looked a scilla, hyacinthella, hyacinthoides, fessia and merwilla pictures on the wiki and don't see anything that looks like it. Doesn't smell like an allium. Its starry light blue flowers are rather pretty little things.  Whatever it is, it's hardy-we went down to 15 last winter. 

Any ideas?  Is this a plant to be feared?

Jan

Always the last to  flower.  Scented of clove.

Lachenalia nervosa

Charles

I may have it.

Let me check and I can scan it and send off to you or post it here.

Hi. I have recently acquired a bulb of the Mexican spiderlily species Hymenocallis cleo, also known as Hymenocallis chiapisiana. I can find little about this one, and it is not included in the listed Hymenocallis on the PBS Wiki (under either name). Trying to find out what its growing conditions are in the wild so I can try to grow it in the garden.  I know it grows in the highlands of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapis. Anyone grow it or know about it?

I did write down that the late Thad Howard, an expert on Mexican Hymenocallis who made expeditions to see them years ago, wrote an article on this one in Plant Life. I have that it was in 1979; #35, pages 56-57. If anyone has that article, I would greatly appreciate if you could post it here, or else send it to me. Thanks.

Charles

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Quote from: Carlos on April 18, 2024, 01:59:22 PMI came back crossing a badly burned area in 2022, there are few signs of recovery, but I saw a few patches of Iris lutescens.

FANTASTIC seeing them in habitat like that! Thanks for sharing, Carlos!!

Thanks, I am used to seeing it but had to stop the car.

BTW... what are the blue leafed plants in the background that look like they could be Yuccas?

Asphodelus cerasiferus. They also survive fires well.