Crocus goulimyi is only found in the southern Peloponnese region of Greece but where it does grow it can be found in vast quantities. Colour varies from light lavender-blue to deeper purplish tones, some with a bicoloured appearance; the pink clone shown is a selection from a seed pan grown from wild collected seed a number of years ago. 

When happy, Crocus goulimyi can multiply to large numbers from off-sets formed around the base of the corm (as with many Crocus) and the very impressive pot-full shown formed part of a display in the alpine house at the RHS Gardens Wisley. In the garden it needs a well-drained, warm and sunny position to do well but is much happier in a bulb-frame but be warned, its rate of increase can be a little too rapid ( if you consider such a thing is possible) if conditions are just right.

Crocus goulimyi is easily recognised, having no real close taxonomic allies, if only by its corm - shiny, thick and hard, Janis Ruksans describing it as 'resembling a hazelnut more than a Crocus corm'. The inner segments are usually smaller than the outers and are broadly ovate giving a goblet-like appearance to the flower. The anthers are yellow and the style is simply divided into 3, yellow to orange branches.