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Rafa

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #240 on: October 01, 2008, 08:23:46 PM »
Helllo friends,

Here, 3 new plants in the garden thanks to my friend Kurt Vickery

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #241 on: October 02, 2008, 07:30:29 PM »
Was idly looking at some pots of snowdrop seedlings today when a pink flower in a moss-covered pot at the back of the area occupied by my seed pots caught my eye. I checked the label and found it to be Colchicum corsicum. This is a flower from my own seed sown a few years ago. This pot receives virtually no sun for most of the year, and not because it is Dunblane, but because it is behind a fence (so Vivienne can't see the pots from the kitchen window :() Ian Young is right. Sow seeds and what suits your regime will flourish. Needless to say, the parent plants, and another batch of seedlings, are in the bulb house.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #242 on: October 02, 2008, 08:15:45 PM »
Hi Rafa,

very nice colchicums.  :)
Kind of more delicate than the autumnalis type I think. In which part of the world do they grow originally ?

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #243 on: October 02, 2008, 08:29:00 PM »
Hello Lars,

I don't know very well the distribution, but for example you can find C. cupani in Tunisia

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #244 on: October 05, 2008, 04:07:54 AM »
A year ago, or maybe two, I was bemoaning the fact that after I still had no germination from Colchicum variegatum, sown in Dec 2002! Well, now I have. I was cleaning up and weeding pots of old seed that I still hoped might produce something, and there was a single seedling of the colchicum, almost 6 years after flowering. With better care and regular watering, maybe I'll get a few more soon. Several other things were present also, Lilium grayii after 4 years and some juno irises after 5.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #245 on: October 05, 2008, 07:28:54 PM »
Colchicum cupani in my meadow - grow well.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #246 on: October 06, 2008, 05:07:18 AM »
colchicum speciosum
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #247 on: October 06, 2008, 05:09:10 AM »
colchicum 'Beaconsfield'
colchicum ‘Waterlily’
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #248 on: October 06, 2008, 06:56:43 PM »
This is the first time I have flowered this one,not sure the name is correct as it is the wrong colour and blooming the wrong time any ideas.
  Colchicum szowitsii Vardahovit.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #249 on: October 06, 2008, 07:02:14 PM »
Zhirair, do you have some words for the difference between C speciosum and C giganteum. Or some pics too?
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #250 on: October 06, 2008, 08:31:34 PM »
Just flowering in France, Colchicum filifolium (Merendera filifolia)

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #251 on: October 07, 2008, 04:02:02 AM »
derek,
Your nice colchicum looks me as a C. baytopiorum which bloom in autumn.

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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #252 on: October 07, 2008, 05:29:40 AM »
Zhirair, do you have some words for the difference between C speciosum and C giganteum. Or some pics too?

Hagen, it is very easy to distinguish both, especially when they are grown together in one collection
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colchicum speciosum has somewhat elongated flowers, without any tessaltion, colour is slightly darker, stronger tubes, orange anthers.

colchicum giganteum is rather tall, has rounded shape of flower,  bit paler in colour with slight tessalation, but the most important is colour of anthers-they are brownish (while colchicum speciosum has oringe anthers).

I posted colchicum giganteum photos in my prevous posts in this thread. I even remember that you commented my pics.
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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #253 on: October 07, 2008, 08:24:44 AM »
Hello everyone!

Please help Colchicum beginner. :) I’ve got recently some Colchicums and I am in doubt with their ID.

Colchicum speciosum

I think it is not true species but a variety with darker flowers.

Another Colchicum speciosum


Colchicum tenorii


Colchicum x hybr. - noname


Colchicum autumnale
http://cs1436.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/45874243/x_67c4daa6.jpg
Think it's true.

And the last one I found in garden centre between ordinary C. speciosum.


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Re: Colchicums autumn 2008
« Reply #254 on: October 07, 2008, 11:50:44 AM »
Dear Olga,

The colchicum in your first picture should be colchicum speciosum Atrorubens, as it has flowers darker than those of the ordinary colchicum speciosum, and darker tubes. Besides, Atrorubens flowers rather late in the season.

The colchicum in your second picture looks like colchicum speciosum, but differs from mine by its flower shape. Your variety more reminds Turkish form Ordu.
Zhirair, Tulip collector, bulb enthusiast
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