Crocus minimus id verification
Bulborum Botanicum (Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:23:15 PST)

I can send you corms Jim
not the best quality and time to send, but they are not dead

resuming
there is only one grower from C. Spring Beauty
J v.d Berg from Boltha BV http://www.boltha.nl/spring-beauty-copy.html
They grow only on large scale C. Spring Beauty
C. minimus is over 10 times more expensive so why replace them ,
The opposite should be more logic
C. minimus makes much smaller corms and increase very slow by
"division" but fast by seed
I have the same experience here with the C. minimus I collected in Corsica

Roland

2013/1/31 Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net>:

Good, now we're getting somewhere.

If the corms in Roland's image are corms of true 'Spring Beauty', then it's obvious that they are not corms of a form of Crocus biflorus (for those of you who are trying to follow this but are not croconuts, C. isauricus is often placed as a form of C. biflorus).

The question to resolve now it seems to me is this: is the true 'Spring Beauty' simply a large-cormed form of C. minimus, or is it something else?

Until that is resolved, doesn't it make better sense to refer to this plant as Crocus 'Spring Beauty' while we wait for its relationship to be determined?

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