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mark smyth

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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #210 on: September 24, 2009, 11:57:16 PM »
very nice ex Crete/macrophyllum
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #211 on: September 25, 2009, 04:01:24 PM »
Quote from: Hans A. on September 24, 2009, 10:10:13 PM
Thanks Oron, this was one of my thoughts too, but should C. macrophyllum not have purple anthers and green pollen?

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Last time i have seen this species on Crete was about 6 years ago, if i remember right, most of the flowers had yellow or darker pollen.
When pollen falls it reveals the dark anthers.  
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #212 on: September 25, 2009, 08:51:13 PM »
Thank you Mark for your comment. :)

Thanks Oron,
your observation of this species in nature is very valuable as the purple anthers and green pollen are often mentioned - for example in BULBS (R. Phillips& Martyn Rix) or http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/plant-portraits/Colchicum+macrophyllum/73/ and also most picture show this features.
This also helps me to ID another plant I showed in reply 28 which has the typical large leaves but yellow pollen - now the question is how this one arrived to the old woman in Mallorca who gave it to me...  ;)
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #213 on: September 25, 2009, 08:59:02 PM »
You could always blame the Phoenicians, Hans.  ;)
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #214 on: September 25, 2009, 09:01:13 PM »
Even if the woman is old - i have some doubt she is so old... 8) ;)
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #215 on: September 25, 2009, 09:13:17 PM »
 Well Hans, you have a title for a novel: 'The old lady and the Colchicum with yellow pollen'
And it all starts in Crete...
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Seriously,
Now you gave me something to checkout...
Maybe different populations, [different islands] have different color of anthers and pollen..? ???

I have just checked the photos in 'The Flowers of Crete' [J. fielding, N. Turland edited by B. Mathew], C. macrophyllum there are with yellow pollen.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #216 on: September 26, 2009, 02:13:19 AM »
A garden right on the coast here.   Anyone care to offer ids?  They may be regular garden centre purchases.

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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #217 on: September 26, 2009, 07:41:58 AM »
Morning John, I would mean the second pic shows us NANCY LINDSAY and the third could be Colchicum byzantinum.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #218 on: September 26, 2009, 08:55:00 AM »
One of the latest flowering cultivars: HUXLEY. My hunt is over. More than 25 years I was looking for this plant (and got a lot of wrong bulbs). These original plants came from a very friendly and generously source of GB. Thank you so much.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #219 on: September 26, 2009, 01:07:39 PM »
Well worth the 25 years wait, Hagen, just stunning shape and colour - can we see close up when it's more open?  Do you grow them in full sun?
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #220 on: September 26, 2009, 01:24:10 PM »
Here's some more pics from the bulb house. C. cupanii; NOT cupanii; pusillum and a stray double cretense.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #221 on: September 26, 2009, 02:06:25 PM »
RR, my colchicums grow in 3/4 sun. Now HUXLEY is open.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #222 on: September 26, 2009, 03:14:48 PM »
Wow, Hagen, aren't they a pretty threesome  :D

Thanks for the planting advice.
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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #223 on: September 26, 2009, 03:47:08 PM »
Hagen - Huxley is sensational.  A great find for you.

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Re: Colchicum autumn 2009
« Reply #224 on: September 26, 2009, 06:56:03 PM »
RR, here is the full situation of my colchicum ground. The bulbs stand under Achnatherum brachytrichum and Thalictrum flavum glaucum.
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