Erythronium

Erythronium albidum

Tidy and attractive blue-green leaves, with pale brown mottling. There is just one flower on a 10cm stem. This is white, dusted with pinky-fawn on the outside and with a lovely yellow throat inside. Rarely the flower can shade towards either pink or blue with age.

Early, miniature and with its own quiet appeal. This is NOT the usual form of commerce. It is a cultivated, stoloniferous clone originally from Canada. Left undisturbed, in full sun, flowering is regular and increase is pleasing.

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Erythronium californicum

Large reflexed white flowers with a broad golden band in the throat and usually a trace of red-pencilling inside. There are several flowers borne on each scape once the plant is established.

Readily grown and flowered outside and the best of all of the species for garden use, making a tremendous display of multi-flowered spikes reliably each year.

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Erythronium caucasicum

The earliest species of all to flower, in January. Large, pure white (rarely palest pink) flowers over patterned leaves. This is related to dens-canis but it has substantially larger flowers that appear 6-8 weeks earlier. These have bright yellow pollen, (and not the blue pollen of dens-canis).

Happy in a well-drained, moisture retentive and humus-rich soil in half shade, though slow to increase.

Raised from a few plants found by the late Vladimir Vasak (without a collector's number) in the Sotschi District of Abkhazia, in the lower Caucasus Mountains.

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Erythronium Citronella

Slightly marbled leaves appear early in the season with good-sized, bright lemon flowers which are backed with green.

A touch nicer than most of the yellow hybrids most of which are vigorous, but this one is floriferous as well.

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Erythronium d-c montenegrinum

In Montenegro, (in former Yugoslavia), the dog’s tooth violet has some populations that are entirely white flowered. This is the form offered.

A lovely plant with ice-white flowers early in the year, over attractively mottled and marbled foliage. Fades to pale violet.

Erythronium dens-canis niveum

In Montenegro, a part of what was Yugoslavia, the dog’s tooth violet, forms populations that are entirely white flowered. This is the form offered.

A very lovely plant it is too with its ice-white flowers held, early in the year, over attractively mottled and marbled foliage.

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Erythronium dens-canis Old Aberdeen

Superbly bronze-marked leaves and the deepest violet-purple flower colour of all of the clones.

This is a very good grower and has done well here over the years. An excellent plant and certainly Carol Scott’s superb selection deserves the widest audience.

Erythronium dens-canis Old Aberdeenerydenold	£5.50		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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Erythronium hendersonii

We have just a few to spare of this lovely pale-violet flowered plant. The very centre of the flower is deep blackcurrant purple sometimes with a surrounding yellow zone, sometimes without.

This species is unique in its colouring and despite being rare and restricted in the wild, it is readily grown in the garden. One of the loveliest of the species and always in high demand.

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Erythronium Jeannine

Raised by W. P. van Eeden and introduced in 1984 by Michael Hoog, who named it in honour of his wife.

Large yellow flowers with a faint red throat ring, over marbled leaves. These are smaller, in proportion, making this less “cabbagey” than Kondo and Pagoda.

Probably raised from a cross of californicum White Beauty with tuolumnense.

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Erythronium Natalie

The best clonal selection from a cross made some years ago, here, between revolutum and californicum White Beauty. Pale pink petals of the revolutum type with a yellow throat overlaid with a red ring from White Beauty over darkly mottled foliage.

First offered 2013.

Erythronium revolutum

These are seed-raised plants from cultivated plants, themselves originating as wild seed.

Deep-green leaves with strong purple marbling below spikes of wide-open, bright-pink flowers. There is a ring of yellow in the throat and protruding yellow anthers complete the vision!

Easily grown and capable of a superb display once established.

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Erythronium revolutum Pink Beauty

A very robust, pale pink clone (these are vegetative divisions) originally selected from wild populations by Carl Purdy (1861-1945). It has large, strong flowers with broad pink petals and a very attractive poise. The base of the petals is yellow with a small pale zone, faintly dotted with orange-caramel spots.

Purdy wrote in Flora & Sylva that Pink Beauty was either a localised form or natural hybrid population with californicum or oregonum. In horticulture it has been much confused in the past, mostly with revolutum, but the differences are now unravelled.

This is a very good form for the garden in half shade and a humus enriched soil, one of the best.

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Erythronium sibiricum

Huge deep wine-red flowers with chrome yellow (not blue) anthers and heavily patterned leaves. This is the largest of the Old World species and rivals some of the US species for their title of biggest in the genus. It is a very distinctive species from Siberia, and this gives away the fact that it really does like it cold.

Cool humid light shade in a cold spot planted in a humus rich soil. This is not one to be coddled in a pot, as a cold winter rest is essential to break dormancy, grow this one too warm and it will miss a year above ground!

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Erythronium sibiricum Altai Snow

Another white, from Janis, very different to ‘White Fang’. This has big white flowers with a slight cream tinge. At the base of the petals there is a creamy yellow zone with some orange spots.

Altai Snow is NOT a clone, but a seed-raised strain, variable to some extent in shape, size of basal spots and intensity of pinkish suffusion developing with age. It keeps its features when seed-raised in isolation. In addition, it propagates reasonably well, vegetatively.

If ‘White Fang’ is the very latest clone of sibiricum forms, then this is one of the very earliest.

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Erythronium Susannah

From the late John Walker of Sutton Valence in Kent. A gorgeous golden yellow hybrid between fertile tuolumnense (the De Jager strain) and oregonum.

This is the best yellow hybrid to date. It leaves all others standing. A fully opened flower is almost 10cm across and there are normally three of these per spike. The flowers are pure pale yellow and they do not have any rusty red in the throat as the parentage does not involve californicum. Free flowering and vigorous, this will soon become a garden feature.

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