Photos of Colchicum (and some other corms, regarding name changes!)

[Maggi Young]

Dima writes:  "It is so exciting to have a new comer to my colchicum's collection - spring-flowering Merendera ghalghana Otsch. 1963 (Ingush Merendera; 3-4 narrow leaves, papery tunics and splitted perianth tube), - the Western, Central & Eastern Caucasian endemic species. It really exsits and it is for sure not trigyna, nor raddeana or even not C. szovitsii as K. Persson considers it now - see corms for comparison."


Merendera ghalghana, W Caucasus


Merendera trigyna (coriaceous tunics), N Caucasus vs Merendera ghalghana (papery tunics), W Caucasus   


Colchicum szovitsii subsp. szovitsii, S Transcaucasia, Armenia


Merendera raddeana, S Transcaucasia, Armenia

[Maggi Young]

new image from Dima: " here, the fresh lifted, but tricky late autumn-winter (synanthous and histeranthous) flowering corms of colchicums (suboptimally frost-resistant and highly susceptible to fungal infections, if clear agricultural practices are not followed) "

                     
       freyni (syn. zangezurum)          chimonantum

       tulackii                tuviae            polyphyllum

[Maggi Young]

Dima writes that these are "a valuable newcomer to my collection recently gotten from a kind Spanish friend, thanks a lot!"  - the Portuguese Colchicum lusitanicum

[Maggi Young]

from July:

Merendera androcymbioides, ex Andalusia, Spain


Merendera figlalii, ex Mugla, Turkey


 Merendera ghalghana, ex Teberda, N Caucasus


Merendera jolantae, ex Kopetdag, Turkmenistan


Merendera kurdica, ex Van, Turkey

[Maggi Young]

from July:
 

Merendera manissadjianii, ex Amasya, Turkey


Merendera persica, ex Semnan, Iran


Merendera raddeana, ex Kuhha-ye Sabalan, Iran


Merendera robusta, ex Semnan, Iran


Merendera sp. nova, ex NW Kyrgyzstan

[Maggi Young]

from August


Colchicum boissieri, ex Samos, Greece


Colchicum kotschyi, ex Kūh-e Sendān Dāgh, Iran


Colchicum sfikasianum, ex Malea, Greece


Colchicum sieheanum - Erdal Kaya C3311, ex Içel, Mersin, Turkey


Colchicum stevenii, ex Gisser-az-Zarka, Israel

[Maggi Young]

more from August


Colchicum tuviae, ex Judean Desert, Palestine


Colchicum sanguicolle ISTE 36226, ex Antalya, Ak Dag - type locality, Turkey

[Maggi Young]

From D. Zubov : " long-awaited corm treasures of the rariest Colchicum androcymbioides ex Cadiz, Spain, from a good friend - thank you very much, I am so happy with it!"