Description
We are told that the inclusion of this plant within the scope of Crocus olivieri back in the 1970s was not correct according to current day thinking, but so far nothing seems to have been published to detail why this is the case. C. suterianus is not mentioned in Janis Ruksans’ latest book on Crocus, so there is no information there either.
The stock in cultivation is now very small after much of it (perhaps with the main grower in the Netherlands?) seemed to become infected with Fusarium. A lot of stock was wiped out by this disease and small stocks of healthy plants persisted with only one or two growers , hence the remaining, very small, healthy plants are both precious and scarce as well as being historically significant. This stock is raised from seed of those plants and is disease-free,
Brilliantly yellow flowers early in spring, with the reverse of the outer petals feathered in brown.
