Description
(Crocus serotinus salzmannii)
This was originally from a fellow Crocus enthusiast in Germany with the collection number, Ma 20/12. It has done well here making pleasant increase and yet flowering reliably with pale violet to paler shades still, with a few almost white flowers and a few darker. Most of the tinted flowers (which are of a very good size) have thin hair-streaks of darker colouring internally and externally.
The anthers are yellow-orange while the stigmas are deep orange. Flowering for this one begins in October, but exceptionally we have recorded flowers opening as late as early December.
Originally found as a “Crocus, unknown species”, Morocco, in the middle-Atlas of Ifrane province at Ain Leuh, east of Ajube at 1,744m and subsequently identified as a very large-flowered form of C. salzmannii. with correspondingly larger corms than our other cultivars.
New to our lists April 2020
