Description
Large, widely opening flowers of soft violet in September, with a central froth of white anthers and a yellow throat below highly divided orange-red stigmas which hang out of the flower. Crocus tournefortii is the only autumnal Crocus that does not close its flowers in poor light or cold weather, they stay open regardless!
The species normally has very narrow leaves, only 1-2 mm across and in this stock (seed raised from VISA 08-50) they are very unusual in that they lie curled on the ground, in the manner of some South African bulbous plants.
Warm sunny spot. Crete and Cyprus.
