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Colchicum & relatives 2018
« on: January 08, 2018, 05:53:26 PM »
Four winter blooming species are in flower outside.

Colchicum szovitsii



Colchicum munzurense

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Colchicum/Merendera mirzovae ex Idjevan, Armenia





Colchicum/Merendera raddeana ex Igueti, Armenia






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Stefan
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2018, 06:48:26 PM »
Lovely photos Stefan; the Colchicum/Merendera mirzovae looks really sculptural...
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Gail Harland
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2018, 05:32:38 AM »
Thanks Gail, probably because of low ligth levels even outside Merendera mirzovae didn't really realize that they were already out of the soil. The petals were stuck together and I had to help to open the flower.

I had the same with Merendera candidissima last year.
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Stefan
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2018, 07:52:00 PM »
Next two Colchicum before the snow will cover them next week.

Colchicum doerfleri from north of Elassona. The leaves are rather hairy.



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Colchicum hungaricum from Podgorica, MNE. The leaves are hairy just at the margins.

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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2018, 05:23:27 PM »
 Colchicum hungaricum
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Arnold Trachtenberg
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2018, 08:06:56 PM »
Colchicum doerfleri

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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2018, 10:30:03 AM »
Small "autumn" flowering colchicum which is self-seeding gently through this bed.
It was originally from the seed exchange as one of the larger species - if anyone knows what it is please let me know!
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Mr Fermi de Sousa, Redesdale,
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2018, 07:59:02 AM »
More flowers from Colchicum NOT bivonae
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2018, 12:04:59 PM »
Some had to wait for some weeks for enough warmth to open their flowers.

Colchicum kesselringii





Colchicum luteum



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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2018, 01:49:24 PM »
Wonderful photos - a delight to see them all.
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2018, 10:42:29 AM »
This autumn variety is known in Australia as 'Lilac Major'.
I have asked before if anyone thinks it is 'Lilac Wonder' but no one has commented yet
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2018, 11:07:45 AM »
I am no expert at all, but here 'Lilac Wonder' has very weak stems (or what ever that part is called beneath the flower) and easily falls over. It is not an early flowering variety, more mid or late.
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Leena from south of Finland

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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2018, 07:53:11 PM »
It is Colchicum byzanthinum, earlyer called C. autumnale Major.

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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2018, 02:36:03 AM »
Thank you, Sjaak and Leena,
I'll mention this to my friends who also grow it,
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Re: Colchicum & relatives 2018
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2018, 12:07:47 PM »
This is the colchicum I got from Marcus Harvey many years ago as Colchicum "atropurpureum" which might be a form of C. cilicium
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