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Flowering Time |
Autumn |
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Distribution |
Central N & NE Turkey; adjacent parts of former Soviet Union |
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Native Climate |
Cold winter, cool dryish summer |
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Wild Habitat |
Short turf, open stony places above 2100m |
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Distinctive Features |
White flower sometimes with violet veins. Corm tunic membranous, corm on its side in the soil |
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Closest Relatives |
Crocus kotschyanus kotschyanus; |
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Cultivation Requirements |
Cool conditions required. Cool dryish summer rest |
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Availability |
Occasionally in specialist/society seed lists |
In appearance very similar to Crocus vallicola but the flowers lack the wispy tips to the petals that are a distinctive feature of Crocus vallicola. The orientation of the corm, on its side, is a feature that is common to this subspecies, Crocus kotschyanus cappadocicus and Crocus kotschyanus hakkariensis. There is a picture to illustrate this on the Crocus kotschyanus cappadocicus page.
Pictures
© John Lonsdale