Crocus sieberi
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Crocus sieberi, Sieber's crocus,[1][2] also referred to as the Cretan crocus or snow crocus (as is Crocus chrysanthus), is a plant of the genus Crocus in the family Iridaceae. A small, early blooming crocus, it easily naturalises, and is marked by a brilliant orange which is mostly confined to the stamens and style, fading through the bottom third of the tepal. It grows wild generally in the Balkans: Greece, especially in the island of Crete, Bulgaria, Albania and North Macedonia. There are four subtypes: sieberi (Crete), atticus (Attica area around Athens), nivalis and sublimis. Its cultivars are used as ornamental plants. Height: Script error: No such module "convert"..
Subspecies
There are four subspecies of C. sieberi.[3]
- Crocus sieberi subsp. sieberi - Native to Crete: flowering in April. The white flowers with yellow throats stand up to 8 cm, the outer surfaces of the flowers are marked with varying degrees of purple. The branched styles are deep orange or yellow.[3]
- Crocus sieberi subsp. atticus - Native to the Attica region of Greece, it has lilac-blue or violet flowers with yellow throats. The corm tunics are more coarsely netted than the other subspecies.[3] It is found growing in stony areas in the mountains and in woods and scrub areas usually above 1000 meters, with flowering occurring from March to June.[4]
- Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis - Native to the Peloponnese, southern Albania, North Macedonia, and also found in southern Bulgaria, has pale lilac flowers with pale yellow throats.[3]
- Crocus sieberi subsp. nivalis - Native to the Peloponnese with lilac-blue flowers that have yellow throats.[3]
Uses
Crocus sieberi is cultivated in gardens as an ornamental plant for its flowers. It has also been used as food; in Greece the corms are eaten raw - with the flavor said to resemble hazelnuts. In Turkey, the leaves are eaten as greens.[3]
Cultivars
Examples:
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- 'Firefly' (lilac)
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- 'Ronald Ginns' (pale pink to white petals with dark purple feathering on the outside and a yellow throat)
- 'Tricolor'<templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>agm[7] (gold centre, middle white band, outer rich lilac-blue edge)
- 'Violet Queen' (deep amethyst-violet flowers, paler within, with a rich, golden centre)
- Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis forma tricolor burtt. - from Mt. Chelmos in the northern Peloponnese.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Plants are more variable than the cultivar 'Tricolor', with bright lilac flowers that have bright orange throats and a white band.[8]
The cultivars marked <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Crocus sieberi subsp. atticus 'Bowles White'
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Crocus sieberi corms
References
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- Jānis Rukšāns. Buried treasures: finding and growing the world's choicest bulbs, Timber Press, 2007. Template:ISBN Template:ISBN
External links
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