Description
(Crocus cancellatus mazziaricus)
Attractive pale violet flowers with a yellow throat and purple pencil stripes overlaying this on the outside. Saffron yellow stigmata complete the picture.
The new concepts of species within Crocus means that the plant once thought of as a variety or subspecies of C. cancellatus, is now a species in its own right. This is a stock raised from one seed capsule gathered in 1990 in maquis at 600m on Samsun Dag, which represents perhaps the easternmost occurrence of this largely Greek species.
Happy here under frost-free glass, probably hardy, but it does not appear to like too much water in the winter. Loam-based, freely draining compost or site, in sun.
