Description
(syn. caspius)
A diploid species scattered across the southern Transcaucasus and the Black Sea coast around Batumi and the spread just reaches into Iran.
Flat, deep green leaves, these lack any waxy “bloom”, but have a distinctly oily sheen to their upper surface. Each leaf is 10-14 cm by 0.5-1 cm wide. The medium-sized flower is borne in March and is pure white, barely tipped ,on the inner segments, with green. It is held on a pedicel which is as long as, or longer than, the spathe. The ovary is conspicuously fattened where it meets the flower.
This stock replaces our earlier Per Wendelbo stock, though it was originally made in the same area in the upper part of the Caspian forest at 1800m above Assalem-Khalkhal in Gilan province, in 1978. (In mentioning the location, may I stress that these are cultivated, horticulturally propagated plants, which are simply traceable to an original locality, they are not wild collected). There are other forms in cultivation and I have no doubt there will be some variability between them all as they are not clones.
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Galanthus transcasicus