Crocus image - question for Arnold NJ
Arnold (Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:32:02 PST)

Angelo:

Our weather here has gone from bad to worse. We had an inch or two of
snow last night and seeing the daffodils surrounded by snow is indeed
strange.

In Brian Mathew's Crocus he describes Crocus thomasii as follows:

"Flowers autumnal, fragrant 1-2(-3), pale to deep lilac, generally not
strongly veined darker but sometimes veined or stained towards the base
of the segments with violet; throat pale yellow, pubescent. Prophyll
present. Bract and bracteole very unequal, white, membranous with long
tapered tips. Perianth tube 3-6(-8) cm long: segments 2-4.5 cm long,
0.7-1.5 cm wide, elliptical, obovate or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse.

Filaments 5-8 mm long, usually pale yellow, glabrous or finely pubescent
at the base: anthers 9-13 mm long, yellow. Style divided at a variable
point, usually ranging from just below or level with the base of the
anthers to about a quarter of the way up the anthers, into 3 bright red
branches, each 0.7-2 cm long, half or less than half the length of the
perianth segments, expanded gradually to the apex."

Maybe Jane can discuss the source of her bulbs.