[pbs] Mystery Fritillaria + 3 new Frit Photos
Antennaria at aol.com
Antennaria at aol.com
Thu Jun 10 23:25:23 EDT 2004
Jane McGary janemcgary at earthlink.net wrote regarding the mystery frit:
>I would have to see the inside of the
>flower for details, but my immediate
>reaction was that this is a photo of
>Fritillaria crassifolia subsp. kurdica.
>However, F. graeca is extremely variable
I'm no frit expert, although I do enjoy growing a few species. As an aid to
the discussion about a possibly ID on the mystery frit, I added a photo on the
PBS Fritillaria page of Fritillaria crassifolia ssp. kurdica, grown from
bulbs from Jane McGary. It's a sweetheart of a little frit. To my eye, it does
not look like a match for the mystery frit.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pbs/pbswiki/index.php/Fritillaria
I also added two other frit pictures. The first is F. bythinica. Mary Sue
already posted some nice closeups of the flower showing the interior and
exterior coloration of the flower; my shot was taken outside where the plant grows
under a deciduous shrub. I had no idea the plant was so tiny, so it looks
rather dwarfed by everything located around it. Many shoots from young F. pudica
bulbs show in the background (bargain-sized small bulbs from Jane McGary). The
second photo shows a young first blossom on putative F. wabuensis, grown from
bulbs shipped from Chen Yi, in China. It's another tiny frit, with flowers
that are virtually black or blackish-red, with a blue-black sheen.
Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria at aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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