Jane McGary has posted an image of a pot of heart-stoppingly beautiful Crocus mathewii grown from seed. I have no reason to suppose they are not C. mathewii, but they do differ from my plants, which descend as clones from the original Kerndorff & Pasche collection in Turkey. I borrowed a picture from Tony Goode to illustrate this taxon on my website. His photograph is much better than mine but looks exactly like my plant in bloom. Jane's Crocus looks excitingly different. The petals are somewhat broader, the color at the heart is deeper and its rays are more jagged. Jane, do you know where and when Michael Kammerlander's parent seeds were collected? How long ago did you sow them, and how did you treat them? If, in addition, anyone has anything to suggest about the synonymy of mathewii with another Crocus, I am interested to hear the concise allegations. :-) Paige Woodward paige@hillkeep.ca http://www.hillkeep.ca/