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| | Crocus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Crocus (plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of perennial flowering plants that grows from a corm, growing naturally from the Aegean (where crocuses appear in Minoan frescos at Santorini), across Central Asia. | | | As one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, the large hybridized and selected "Dutch crocus" are popular with gardeners. | | | However, in areas in which snow and frost occasionally occur in the early spring one has to plant them carefully as it is not uncommon in these regions for the crocuses to bloom early, only to suddenly wither and die from a unseasonable "post-winter" frost or snowfall. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus
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| | PbsWiki - Crocus |
| | Crocus sieberi - is a spring flowering crocus. | | | Crocus vernus ssp albiflorus is the spring flowering mountain plant of the Alps. | | | Crocus sieberi ssp atticus is from Greece and has lilac-blue flowers. |
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http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Crocus?version=105
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| | PbsWiki - Fall Blooming Crocus |
| | Crocus moabiticus, native to the Moab region of northern Jordan, is one of the rarest crocuses in nature and cultivation. | | | Crocus tournefortii from southern Greece and the Greek Islands is a species that is unusual in that the flowers remain open at night and in bad weather; thus, it is best grown under glass in less mild climates, although it is cold-hardy to at least 25 degrees F. It flowers after the leaves have emerged. | | | Crocus cartwrightianus This species is thought to be the source of the sterile triploid Crocus sativus, or cultivated saffron. |
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http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FallBloomingCrocus?version=14
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| | The Crocus |
| | Crocus seeds are produced in fluffy grey heads and are usually ripe by mid June. | | | Every crocus flower I've seen has been crawling with these pesky insects, so you would be well advised to admire them in their natural setting and leave them for others to see. | | | This plant is almost identical to a prairie crocus, except it has larger more darkly coloured flowers and tends to feel more at home in a perennial garden. |
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http://gardenline.usask.ca/misc/crocus.html
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| | Crocus - flower |
| | Crocus blooms are large compared to the foliage with colors including white, purple, or stripes of both. |
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/flowers/Crocu26.htm
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| | Crocus Flower |
| | The growth of cells in flower petals of crocus and tulip flowers is responsive to temperature. | | | Crocus flowers are among the first flowers of Spring, often emerging long before the danger of snow and freezing weather has passed. | | | The yellow crocus flower in this movie was picked on a cold night and brought indoors where it warmed and the flower opened in less than an hour (each frame was captured two minutes apart). |
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http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/flowers/crocus/crocus.html
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| | * Crocus - (Plants): Definition |
| | Crocus plant belonging to the iris family, probably native to southwestern Asia, and formerly widely cultivated in Europe; also the dried orange-yellow stigmas of its purple flowers, used for colouring and flavouring in cookery... | | | CROCUS (Spring flowering) (Several species (chrysanthus, flavus, sieberi, tommasinianus, vernus) and cultivars are available with blue, lavender, white, yellow and bicolored flowers... | | | Autumn Crocus is among the earliest of the fall bulbs to flower, often in late Summer or early Autumn... |
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http://www.bestknows.com/plants/crocus.html
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| | Crocus Flowers |
| | The cup-shaped Crocus flowers bloom in early spring in shades of white, yellow, pink, and purple; they are often striped with contrasting colors and are 3 to 4 inches tall. | | | Autumn crocus has a cup-shaped flower like the true spring crocus, but its pink, white, or light purple 4-inch flowers bloom in fall. | | | Snow crocus blooms in late winter, producing more and smaller flowers than hybrid crocus. |
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http://www.bhg.com/home/Crocus-Flowers.html
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| | MotheringDotCommune Forums - Crocus-Saffron |
| | Crocus sativus has 3 stigma that loll out of the flower; colchicum have 6 that stay inside the flower. | | | It's a fall blooming crocus that is lavender in color, so right now the ones in my garden have green tops about 8 inches long that look like grass. | | | I only looked at one site that sells it, and it was sold out, but it says you plant it in the fall for fall bloom the next year, I suppose. |
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http://www.mothering.com/discussions/printthread.php?t=247771
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| | Crocus Bulbs Page - Mid City Nursery |
| | Spring blooming crocus should be planted in the fall and the fall blooming crocus are planted in early fall(September). | | | They bloom very early to extend the crocus blooming season. | | | 'Giant Crocus - These colorful crocus grow about 6 inches high with 2 to 4 inch tall flowers. |
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http://www.midcitynursery.com/bulbs/crocus.htm
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| | Native to the Balkans, Sieber's crocus is one of 75 species of crocus, low-growing perennials which generally flower in the early spring. | | | Sieber's crocus is characterized by white to pale mauve flowers and a yellow throat. | | | Several species are cultivated as garden plants, the familiar mauve, white, and orange forms being varieties of Crocus vernus, C. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0010805.html
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| | Fall Blooming Crocus |
| | Crocus sativus speciosus is one of the earliest of the fall blooming crocus. | | | Crocus hadriacticus is another fall crocus which blooms in September into October. | | | These have larger, crocus-like blooms, and are similar in growth characteristics to the other crocus as well. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/gardening_great_lakes/75624
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| | RNZIH - Horticulture Pages - Crocus |
| | The crocus genus is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, extending from 10 degrees west, in Portugal and North Africa, to 55 degrees east, with odd species scattered as far east as the Ala Tau Mountains in Western China. | | | Our first offerings of crocus at the nursery were six autumn flowering species in 1986, and the numbers offered have continued to increase year by year until, in our final catalogue we listed over 70 different species and varieties. | | | This variability is characteristic of crocus and occurs in most of their characters — size, colour (Photo 3), corm coat, and leaf width. |
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http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/crocus.htm
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| | GardenWorld |
| | A flower of ritual and ornament, the crocus was also used in medicine, as food and as a source of dye. | | | Crocus goulimyi is a gorgeous sight in southern Greece, turning the land lilac blue under the olive trees. | | | he amazing thing about crocuses is that you can have them flowering in the garden for ten months of the year, from September to June, kicking off with the purple blue Crocus banaticus and ending with the yellow Crocus cvijivii. |
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http://www.gardenworld.co.uk/crocus.asp
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| | Fall Crocus and Colchicum |
| | One of the most special of the autumn flowering crocus is Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus. | | | While we are accustomed to thinking of crocus as spring flowers, many varieties also bloom in the fall, at about the time the colchicum are finishing. | | | They are hardy in zone 4 with mulch, and zones 5-9 without, and bloom in summer, and are distantly related to another familiar plant, the crocus. |
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http://www.dutchbulbs.com/plantprofile.html
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| | Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Saffron Crocus — Conjuring Color and Flavor in the Autumn Garden |
| | Plant historians believe that the saffron crocus originated as a naturally occurring hybrid and was selected and maintained over the centuries for its extra-long stigmas. | | | A famous fresco of that era depicts women with crocus blossoms woven or embroidered on costumes of saffron-dyed cloth, wearing saffron-based cosmetics, picking crocus flowers and presenting them to an enthroned goddess. | | | The crocus flower suffused Bronze Age Minoan culture. |
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http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/plants/2001fa_crocus.html
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| | Scottish Rock Garden Club - >Bulb Log |
| | Crocus pulchellus is another autumn crocus well suited to pot or garden cultivation. | | | In the bulb house a white form of Crocus banaticus is also flowering, this form is called 'Novaks White'. | | | Two collections of the delicate Crocus asumaniae flowering last year; I am hoping for more flowers when I get back. |
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2004/131004/log.html
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| | A Crocus Story |
| | The Crocus is one of the earliest blooming of the spring flowers, sometimes seen poking their blossoms through the snow. | | | To force the Crocus to bloom indoors for a winter display, the bulbs should be potted in the fall, allowing about one inch between them and covering with one inch of soil. | | | Its bright flowers of various colors and its easy culture combine to make it a plant that is grown by everybody from the millionaire with his large range of greenhouses to the man who has nothing but a window in which to raise plants. |
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http://www.canville.net/canville/article.html?article=crocus-story
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| | You Grow Girl Featured Plant :: Crocus |
| | Perhaps less familiar to admirers of the crocus are the varieties that bloom in fall. | | | The earliest documented gardens of the West, those of Egyptians, Greeks, and the Minoans of Crete (2100-1600 BC) all grew the crocus. | | | It has larger flowers than any other type. |
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http://www.yougrowgirl.com/grow/feat_crocus_print.php
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| | Paghat's Garden: Crocus sativus |
| | The Saffron crocus, native to Europe & western Asia, is grown both as a food crop & as a garden ornamental. | | | The majority of autumn-blooming crocuses are various shades of purple or violet, but saffron crocus is lent an obvious distinction because of those brilliant red style. | | | After a couple weeks of flowering, a hard rain beat the saffron blossoms down, & thereafter there was only crocus grass. |
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http://www.paghat.com/saffron.html
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| | Spices at Penzeys Spices Saffron |
| | Saffron is the stigma of the fall flowering crocus. | | | Saffron is so valuable because it is a very labor intensive crop, and only 5-7 pounds of saffron can be produced from each acre of land. | | | Peek inside most any flower, and you will see three threadlike filaments. |
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http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyssaffron.html
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| | Paghat's Garden: Crocus sativus 'Cashmerianus' |
| | To do well indefinitely, Saffron Crocus ought to be lifted from the soil as often as annually in warm climates, or once every two to five years in cooler climates, & on average every third year. | | | Saffron Crocus does produce grass in autumn, then has flowers appearing rapidly on the heals of the tight little clumps of crocus-grass. | | | 'Cashmerianus,' named for Kashmir, India, where saffron crocus is grown as a spice crop, is more free-flowering than regular Crocus sativus & better adjusted to temperate climates, hence an improved choice for cooler or maritime gardens. |
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http://www.paghat.com/saffroncashmerianus.html
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| | Spotlight Plant Of The Month For March: Crocus |
| | Those little bunching crocus, Crocus chrysanathus, or the Snow Crocus, have daintier flowers and are also smaller than the Dutch crocus. | | | For me, it is the blooming of the crocus. | | | Another small variety to consider is Crocus tommasinianus, which sports many lovely blue and purple flowers. |
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http://www.gardengal.net/March.html
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| | Garden Spot: Crocus Question. |
| | With some of my bulbs, for instance the lycoris and especially the amaryllis, both of which produce foliage after blooming, I often have cases where there is no bloom, only foliage. | | | i have foliage, and it's very definitely crocus foliage, but no sign of flowers. | | | Like the other fall-flowering bulbs I have (oxblood lilies and red spider lilies), they flower before the leaves come up. |
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http://gardenspot.typepad.com/gardenspot/2003/10/crocus_question.html
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| | Cooking With Kurma - Essays |
| | Saffron is the name given to the three dried, red coloured stigmas (stigmata) and part of the white style to which they are attached, of Crocus Sativus Linnaeus, a cultivated, autumn-blooming, purple-flowered crocus and a member of the Iris family (iridacea). | | | A rare characteristic of saffron is that specimens collected from around the world are identical, which suggests a common source for the saffron crocus. | | | If that all sounds too staggering to comprehend, let’s put it another way: one decent-sized bunch of crocus flowers yields enough saffron to flavour a saffron rice dish for four. |
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http://kurma.net/essays/e7.html
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| | Crocus |
| | Italy, early, large fragrant purple and white flowers, leaves appearing with the 1-2 flowers, cold hardy to zone 7 | | | chrysanthus (chra-san' thus)--Snow or Golden Crocus, species flowers are bright orange while cultivars have varied colors, 1-4 scented flowers, earlier than vernus, cold hardy to zone 4, leaves appearing with flowers | | | korolkowii (core-ol-ko' wee-ii)--Turkish Crocus, cold hardy to zone 6, native to Asia Minor, leaves appearing with the 3-5 scented flowers, yellow flowers usually with some green or orange |
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http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/bulcroc.html
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| | FibroHugs: The Ray of the Crocus |
| | The Crocus are showing their yellow and purple blossoms | | | The Crocus will soon move on making room for other blossoms | | | Pushing their way up through the soil today. |
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http://www.fibrohugs.com/article.php?story=20050218170325568&mode=print
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| | Saffron crocus. The greek red saffron crocus. |
| | The stigmas are extracted by hand from the freshly harvested flowers and dried to become irregular, deep orange threads. | | | reek red saffron or "Crocus", a pure product of the Greek land, is considered to be the best in the world. | | | A miracle of nature with a distinctive aroma and a honey-like taste, Saffron is the world's most expensive spice and unique in its origin, for saffron is the dried stigmas of the flower crocus. |
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http://www.saffron.gr/saffron.html
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| | Alicante Saffron, Autumn Crocus, Crocus, Gatinais Saffron, Hay Saffron Karcom, Stima Croci, Zaffer | | | But his favours were rebuffed by Smilax, and he was turned into a beautiful purple crocus flower. | | | The blue-violet flowers contain the precious protruding orange stigmas. |
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http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/saffron.html
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| | Paghat's Garden: Saffron Mythology |
| | These pure yellow crocuses were probably the natural wild Golden Crocus (C. | | | It cannot spread naturally, but declines if not dug up ever other year or so & the corms divided. | | | Among spring species, many have always had white forms. |
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http://www.paghat.com/saffronmyth.html
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| | Hort 100 Modified Stems and Roots |
| | In the photo, the upside down crocus corm has a black line drawn on it to emphasize the point of attachment of a leaf. | | | Corms develop flowering stems which elongate after a cold period to emerge from the soil and expand their flowers. | | | The corm is a relatively solid modified stem that has a few fleshy leaves. |
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http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/NRES103/3473-43.htm
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| | Crocus Chrysanthus - LoveToKnow Garden |
| | A white variety is also found in Bithynia and on Mount Olympus above Broussa; this species also varies with pale sulphur-colored flowers, occasionally suffused with blue towards the orange throat. | | | This page was last modified 08:59, 1 Aug 2005. | | | There are four varieties of this Crocus, distinct in coloring; they are fusco-tinctus, fusco-lineatus, albidus, and coerulescens. |
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http://garden.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Crocus_Chrysanthus
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| | Small Spring Crocus - Class project |
| | Jan will teach the basics to create the flower, bud, leaves and background using curved piecing techniques on the sewing machine. | | | This small wall hanging is the focus of the Spring Crocus class. |
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http://www.jankrentz.com/smallspringcrocus.html
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| | Spice Pages: Saffron (Crocus sativus) |
| | Although saffron can sometimes be found wild in Europe (more precisely, escaped from former cultivation), it is not advisable for the botanically unminded to collect “wild saffron”: Chances are high that the plant turns out to be the much more common autumn crocus, which is also known as meadow saffron or naked ladies ( | | | Beware: This flower belongs to autumn crocus ( | | | Interestingly, the leaves of autumn crocus can be confused with another edible wild plant of Central Europe (bear's garlic) and have caused deaths repeatedly. |
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http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/Croc_sat.html
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| | Saffron - Aroma from Carotenoids |
| | The flower of Crocus sativa is a light purple, but it is the thread-like reddish colored stigma of the flower that is valued both as a spice and as a natural colorant. | | | Saffron is hand harvested in the autumn, and the stigma is laboriously separated to yield the reddish colored spice. | | | Tarantilis, P. A.; Polissiou, M.; Morjam, H.; Avot, A.; Bel Jebbar, A.; Manfait, M. Anticancer activity and structure of retinoic acid and carotenoids of Crocus sativus L. on HL60 cells. |
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http://www.leffingwell.com/saffron.htm
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| | crocus for sure |
| | All plants are 100% guaranteed to grow and thrive. | | | Offering a variety of imported flower bulbs; tulips, crocus, daffodils, narcissus and iris, among others | | | Crocus.co.uk Crocus is the UKs biggest gardening web site and every gardeners Eden. |
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http://www.groovyshopping.com/crocus.htm
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| | CROCUS - Definition |
| | [n] any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | | | Crocus sativus, genus Crocus, iridaceous plant, saffron, saffron crocus | | | (Chem.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron ({Crocus of Mars} or {colcothar}) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder. |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/crocus
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| | CROCUS - Online Information article about CROCUS |
| | The species of crocus are not very readily obtainable, bud' those who make a specialty of See also: | | | CROCUS, a botanical genus of the natural See also: | | | garden are mostly horticultural varieties of C. vernus, C. versicolor and C. aureus (Dutch crocus), the two former yielding the See also: |
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