WP Title: Crocus spp. Collection

Lead Partner: 11

Participating Partners: 0, 4, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13

Objectives: To collect seeds and/or corms of Crocus taxa from public and private collections, nurseries, botanic gardens and wild populations in the geographical areas of distribution of the genus

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Descriptions of work:

Geographic area (partner responsible)-Wild crocuses present in this area

- W Iberian Peninsula (0)- C. serotinus ssp. clusii, C. serotinus ssp. salzmanii, C. serotinus ssp. serotinus (Portugal), etc.

- E Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands (4)- C. nudiflorus, C. nevadensis, C. cambessedessi (Majorca, Menorca), etc.

- France (8)- C. versicolor, C. corsicus, C. minimus (Corsica), C. medius

- Italy (6)- C. thomasii, C. vernus ssp. etc.

- Hungary and The Carpathian Basin (7) - C. vernus ssp. vernus, C. heuffelianus, C. scepusiensis, etc.

- N Greece, Macedonia (10)- C. cartwrightianus, C. pallasii ssp. pallasii, C. scardicus, C. pelistericus, etc.

- S Greece , Cyprus (10)- C. hadriaticus ssp. hadriaticus, C. hadriaticus ssp. parnassicus, etc.

- Turkey (11)- C. pallasii ssp. pallasii, C. pallasii ssp. dispathaceus, C. pallasii ssp. turcicus, C. mathewei, etc.

- Caucasus (12)- C. autranii, C. charojanii, C. reticulatus ssp. reticulatus, C. angustifolius, C. caspius, etc.

- Middle East (13)- C. moabiticus, C. ochroleucus, C. cancellatus ssp. cancellatus, etc.