1. Iris species nova - Starweaver's Gems from Earth and Sky
1. Iris species nova - Starweaver's Gems from Earth and Sky
1. Iris species nova - Starweaver's Gems from Earth and Sky
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478. Muscari leucostomum<br />
Flowers very dark blue, almost black. Collected near Duschak, Kopet-Dag mnt. Range,<br />
Turkmenistan. 2.00<br />
479. Muscari macrocarpum<br />
Beautiful seed raised stock <strong>and</strong> so it is virus-free comparing with heavy infected stocks<br />
usually offered on trade. Flowers at opening are light pink to violet turning later to<br />
bright yellow <strong>and</strong> are tremendously fragrant. Makes fat bulbs with perennial roots.<br />
Nice even at seed-time due large seed capsules. 6.00<br />
480. Muscari mirum<br />
Quite recently described <strong>species</strong> something similar to M. massayanum with dense raceme<br />
of cylindrical, brownish with yellow reflexed lobes fertile flowers <strong>and</strong> many<br />
bright lilac sterile flowers at top. In wild with one leaf but in cultivation usually with<br />
two leaves. Seedpods very large. 15.00<br />
48<strong>1.</strong> Muscari muscarimi HONAZ-DAG<br />
Representative of Muscarimia with large spikes of cold white flowers with brown<br />
lobes in lower part which gradually changes to slightly lilac shade at top. Nice fragrance.<br />
Makes bulbs with perennial roots <strong>and</strong> seldom makes offsets. Raised up <strong>from</strong><br />
seeds <strong>and</strong> its greatest advantage compared to plants usually available <strong>from</strong> Dutch companies<br />
is that it is virus-free. 6.00<br />
482. Muscari neglectum<br />
Another very dark flowering <strong>species</strong> with blackish blue fragrant fertile flowers <strong>and</strong> up<br />
to 20 something lighter smaller sterile flowers. This form is collected in Karun valley,<br />
Bakhtiari Country in Iran (SLIZE-143). 6.00<br />
483. Muscari pallens<br />
True wild <strong>species</strong> <strong>from</strong> N Caucasus, where it grows in rock crevices. Flowers variable<br />
- white <strong>and</strong> very light blue, sometimes with yellowish tint in small spikes. Late blooming<br />
<strong>species</strong>. One of the most beautiful Muscari. 2.00<br />
484. Muscari polyanthum ‘SNOW QUEEN’<br />
Undoubtedly the best white muscari I ever saw. It forms incredibly large <strong>and</strong> dense<br />
spikes of purest milky white. My first choice for its name was ‘Milky Way’ but as the<br />
same are used for famous brown chocolate, I changed name to ‘Snow Queen’. 10.00<br />
485. Muscari sivrihisardaglarensis<br />
It is very recently described <strong>species</strong> <strong>and</strong> for its name Turkish botanists used the name<br />
of mountain ridge where it was found. My stock was originally collected during LST<br />
expedition <strong>and</strong> we found that it is much wider distributed than earlier supposed. Flowers<br />
dark violet with large white, constricted but with flared lobes mouth. Stem reddish<br />
toned (not always). 7.00<br />
486. Muscari spreitzenhoferi<br />
This Cretan endemic was collected by me <strong>and</strong> my wife during our autumn trip to Crete.<br />
Not easy to describe its colour. The fertile flowers are of strange greenish-brownishpurple<br />
colour with bright yellow constricted mouth. Sterile flowers are light pink or<br />
blue. All they are composed in tall but loose spike. 6.00<br />
487. Muscari tenuiflorum<br />
Beautiful representative of Leopoldias with long spikes <strong>and</strong> sterile flowers of slightly<br />
lilac tinted, even pinkish-blue colour <strong>and</strong> deep blue fertile flowers on short pedicels<br />
along the spike. From N of Refahye in Turkey. 8.00<br />
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