Crocus, herfstbloeiend

Autumn-flowering crocuses often grow in areas where the summers are very dry. The mild autumn rain encourages the crocus to bloom. The most famous, however, is Crocus sativus, which produces the precious saffron. The book 'Crocuses, A complete Guide to the Genus' by Janis Ruksans, published in 2010, devotes almost 50 pages to this group.

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Crocus boryi
Crocus boryi
Named after the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Cent-Vincent. The species is found, among others, in ancient olive groves, rocky grasslands and sand dunes to the south and west of Greece, the Ionian Islands and southeast Crete. The available...
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Crocus cartwrightianus 'Albus'
Crocus cartwrightianus 'Albus'
Intro: 1843. Origin: Greece and the island of Crete. Initially C. cartwrightianus was considered to be C. sativus they are closely related to each other. Flower and leaves appear simultaneously. The pure white flowers are accentuated by three...
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Crocus cartwrightianus 'Marcel'
An offspring selected from a seed lot CEH 613 and named after one of Antoine Hoog's sons. Very soft lilac flowers. The veins that lighten from the dark centre are clearly visible. Also very attractive are the three bright red stigmas.
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Crocus caspius
Crocus caspius
The slightly fragrant flowers of this species, which occurs in Azerbaijan and Iran along the Caspian Sea coast, are usually white with a yellow throat. Sometimes the flowers are soft lilac or show a hint of lilac. Two flowers usually appear one...
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Crocus goulimyi
Crocus goulimyi
In southern Greece (Peloponnese), this species is locally very common in ancient olive groves and below fig trees. Dr. C. N. Goulimy found this crocus in November 1954 but it was only in 1975 that this weatherproof, autumn-flowering species was...
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Crocus goulimyi 'Mani White'
A brilliant pure white form from southern Greece, the Mani peninsula, discovered by M. Hoog. The sharply pointed petals give the flower a distinctive shape. Good growing and reliably flowering.
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Crocus hatayensis
A species originating from Hatay province in the far south of Turkey, near the Syrian border. Janis Ruksans and Eugenius Dambrauskus collected the first corms as early as 2003, but publication has been delayed until more studies on this C....
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Crocus laevigatus 'Fontenayi'
Crocus laevigatus 'Fontenayi'
Origin: Greece (Cyclades). An almost winter-flowering crocus with the common name 'Christmas crocus'. The inside of the flower is soft lilac, fading to white and eventually yellow towards the throat. The exterior of the nearly round petals has a...
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Crocus lycius
Crocus lycius
C. lycius is found on rocky slopes in southern Turkey. Pure white, slender flowers with a contrasting deep-yellow throat. The whole is complemented by the finely incised red style whose shape fills the heart of the flower like flickering flames....
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Crocus macedonicus
A richly flowering crocus native to Greece and Macedonia, growing on limestone mountain slopes. The lightly scented flowers are soft lilac with dark stripes, visible both inside and out.
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Crocus mathewii
Perhaps the most desirable in the crocus range. Collected by Helmut Kerndorff and Erich Pasche in 1992 in the Taurus mountains in Antalya province, southern Turkey. Named after Brian Mathew. The offered is carefully raised from seed, the...
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Crocus mathewii 'Pink Princess'
Later research showed that C. mathewii has a much wider range than initially thought. The number of forms and colours is also large. A number of cultivars have been named, including this 'pink princess', soft lilac-pink flowers and the well-known...
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Crocus mazziriacus
In the book The World of Crocus', Janis Ruksans writes about six different geographical forms of this crocus. The range originally comes from the Peloponnese near Stemnitsa, 'the locus classicus'. Those found here are predominantly white or soft...
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Crocus melantherus
Characteristic of this autumn crocus from the southern and western Peloponnese are the variable-sized black stamens (melantherus means black stamens). Nevertheless, there may be plants in which the stamens are not black. The outer petals of the...
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Crocus ochroleucus
Crocus ochroleucus
The introduction of C. ochroleucus dates back to October 1859. They are still found in Lebanon, southwestern Syria and northern Israel, mostly in rocky areas. The flower colour is creamy white with a broad yellow base, the name is derived from...
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Crocus pallassii 'Ariasos'
A highly variable form originally collected among the ruins of ancient Ariasos north of Antalya. The range comes from a form selected by Václav Jošt: the flowers are fragrant, mostly five per tuber, lilac-pink. C. pallassi is named after the...
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Crocus pallassii 'Samos'
This form, which occurs on the Aegean island of Samos, is distinct from the one from Crimea. It is not yet entirely clear what the exact differences are, further research needs to be done. The colour is slightly variable, from soft lilac to lilac,...
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Crocus pulchellus 'Zephyr'
Crocus pulchellus 'Zephyr'
Pulchellus means wonderful or beautiful, hence the (Dutch) commonly used name: pracht-crocus (pomp crocus). An eye-catcher introduced by Mr Tom Hoog. Elegant large white flowers with an unusual pearl grey glow. The throat is yellow with a hint of...
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Crocus puringii
An autumn-flowering crocus that is quite isolated in Crimea, found in small groups in bright places under trees, mostly along forest edges and in grass. Named after the Latvian botanist Nikolai J. Puring. The somewhat variable lilac-blue flowers...
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Crocus sativus
Crocus sativus
The saffron crocus. It is generally believed that C. sativus is a form of C. cashmirianus. The flower colour is lilac-purple with beautiful veins. The relatively large orange-red stigmas usually protrude above the flower and seems like they only...
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Crocus serotinus subsp. clusii
Intro: 1977. Origin: Portugal, north of Lisbon, in northwest Spain in the La Guardia area and southwest in the province of Cadiz. The flowers of this fragrant crocus are dark purple with dark stripes. The centre is white to very pale yellow.
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Crocus speciosus 'Semedo'
A cultivar registered in 2021 with violet-blue flowers with a silver sheen on the outside of the petals. The flower stems are dark tinged.
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Crocus speciosus subsp. speciosus
Crocus speciosus subsp. speciosus
An easy-growing autumn crocus, native to the Crimea, Caucasus, Turkey and Iran. However, several forms of C. speciosus occur in this large area, which Janis Ruksans divides into several species, subspecies, types. He devotes several pages to this...
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Crocus speciosus subsp. speciosus 'Albus'
Crocus speciosus subsp. speciosus 'Albus'
A form of C. speciosus cultivated in the Netherlands in 1913 by Van Tubergen. White flowers with an orange throat, easily growing. Incidentally, no pure white form is found in wild populations.
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