Description
(also know as Gwenola, however Guenola is the correct spelling)
Crocus cartwrightianus Guenola is notable for its paler and uniform base colouring, which is almost devoid of any striping or feathering. Below the flower there is a darker, purple tube which infuses into the base of the flower, behind a slightly yellow throat, to give a bronzed effect. In the centre of the flower the prominent, deeply divided red-orange style and deep orange-yellow anthers make a superb contrast.
A lovely new, clonal cultivar, selected and named by Antoine Hoog. It was found as a single corm amongst a very old horticultural stock received as “C.niveus” but it has a wide, flat corm verylike C.cartwrightianus. The attribution to C. cartwrightianus must remain as an educated guess for now, pending cytological examination.
