Another fall-blooming snowdrop is Galanthus peshmenii. It increases well for me (under a tree) but doesn't flower much. It is possible that the correspondent's fall snowdrop got mixed into a shipment of wild-collected snowdrop bulbs from Turkey at some time in the past. (I must add that I got G. peshmenii from an irreproachable cultivated source!)

Last year I was given a snowdrop that flowers in early December and keys out to Galanthus nivalis, which a friend found in an old garden in his neighborhood.
Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA

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