Photos in The Bulb Garden
Harold Koopowitz (Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:54:42 PST)

Hi Jane:

I enjoyed your article in this issue of the bulb garden. We went to
Crete at about the same time a few years ago. It was great fun. I
have a question and a comment. Is Galanthus peshmenii autumn flowering?

Narcissus serotinus has been confused for centuries. The true N.
serotinus is a smaller flower and has a lemon yellow corona with an
inflated floral tube. Your flower with its orange corona is actually
N. miniatus, the allopolyploid natural hybrid between N. serotinus
and N. elegans. This has been confirmed by recent DNA analysis. All
of the floras of the Mediterranean are wrong about the identity. This
is an ancient hybrid, today the true N. serotinus is confined to
Morocco, southern Portugal and a few sites in western Spain while the
hybrid covers most of the Mediterranean.

cheers
Harold

At 01:46 PM 11/7/2008, you wrote:

Thank you to Marguerite English for her nice presentation of my
article in the new issue of The Bulb Garden.

There is one correction to make: the photo on p. 9 captioned "Crocus
baytopiorum" should be "Colchicum baytopiorum." There is, however, a
different plant called Crocus baytopiorum -- it is a spring-blooming
member of the C. vernus group with pale blue flowers. Both species
honor a husband-and-wife team of Turkish botanists named Baytop (the
name means "of the Baytops"). Also, in the captions on p. 10, should
be Crocus asumaniae, not asumania; and this name commemorates Asuman
Baytop, the wife of the said couple.

To add to the discussion of Cyclamen graecum, I have a good plant of
it growing in the open for the past 2 years. It survived a hard
winter this past year and flowered in fall, as well as producing very
large, showy leaves, obviously happy in a sloping scree bed. This
species does well in full sun.

I've given a talk based on these trips to a couple of NARGS chapters.
I'm using some of the photos to develop another presentation on bulbs
and their native habitats.

Jane McGary

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