Gladiolus flowering
Michael Mace (Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:03:09 PDT)

Terry wrote:

opened up the corm for a photo, link below. Is this what's called a
'woody' tunic?

You're not making this easier ;-)

Based on the illustrations in the Goldblatt and Manning book, your corms do
not look quite like G. watsonius. I don't have any priorii corms dug up at
the moment for comparison, but I do have some watsonius corms. I just took
a photo and uploaded it to the wiki here:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…
Nine#watsonius

Corms of watsonius have "teeth" (my term) at the base of the tunic. You can
see it in a couple of the corms in my photos, and it's also shown in the
illustration in Goldblatt & Manning. The teeth are fairly rigid and kind of
clamp onto the corm. I don't think I see those teeth in your photo
(although the tunic might look different on a dormant bulb).

Hope that helps,

Mike
San Jose, CA