Description
Related to both Fritillaria graeca thessala and pontica and their species complex, this is an easily grown garden species from Mount Pantocrator on the Greek Island of Corfu.
It has 30cm stems bearing several, large, green bells marked with soft brown above a characteristic terminal whorl or collar of three leaves. In the throat are six, impressed, dark purple nectaries which glisten with nectar.
Coming from the northern end of the wild range, and from mountains within that range, this is notably cold-hardy in cooler regions and it appears to do well, in the right spot, outside without protection.
