Dear Rodger, I would place bets that it is a form of Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus.There are a great many of these flowering early in november thru to december.Could you post a photo somewhere for identification purposes? Mark ,in only 7cms of snow melting fast. > Message du 03/02/09 01:39 > De : totototo@telus.net > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [pbs] Galanthus reginae-olgae, was New Jersey Weather > > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 10:46, Jane McGary wrote: > > > [Galanthus reginae-olgae] increases fairly well but doesn't seem to set > > viable seed, perhaps because I have only one clone. > > I have two forms of this, both grown from exchange seed. One has flowers > accurately described by the Farrerean epithet "squinny": rather narrow petals > with little substance to them, more nearly the ghost of a plant than a plant of > beauty. > > However, the other form has nice dumpy flowers of good substance, and is a > welcome site in late fall. > > Locally, there is a rather large snowdrop grown that usually flowers in early > December regular as clockwork, later than my G. r-o forms but earlier than all > the rest. It appears to have been passed from hand to hand in a single small > neighborhood, though it occurs spottily elsewhere. I have some specimens of > what appears to be the same form. Can anyone suggest the proper name of this > form? > > > > -- > Rodger Whitlock > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate > on beautiful Vancouver Island > > http://maps.google.ca/maps/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >