Colchicum 2010

[PeterT]

Hello Luc,
could you tell me if my earlier posting is baytopiorum please? it looks similar to yours

[Hagen Engelmann]

Luc, what a lot of nice colchicum dwarfs. If I had a tunnel.......

Gail. my ATRORUBENS looks like yours and i have my bulbs from different sources. But these ATRORUBENS differ in some aspects from my RUBRUM. So it`s not like E A BOWLES wrote. What shall we do???

[Gail]

Gail. my ATRORUBENS looks like yours and i have my bulbs from different sources. But these ATRORUBENS differ in some aspects from my RUBRUM. So it`s not like E A BOWLES wrote. What shall we do???

I don't know.    The more I read the more confused I get...

[Brian Ellis]

I don't know.    The more I read the more confused I get...

I know the feeling

[PeterT]

I don't know.    The more I read the more confused I get...

I know the feeling

It's quite normal, the plants usually get the last laugh one way or another

[LucS]

Hello Luc,
could you tell me if my earlier posting is baytopiorum please? it looks similar to yours

It is difficult to compare the color of the flowers because this depends on the lightlevel when the picture is taken.
The pale center and the big anthers are similar but the rest is difficult to judge.
When the leaves develop, you can expect rather broad (2 cm) and long leaves (up to 20 cm) that have a slightly curved shape (spiral-like).
I email you the botanical data.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Here are Colchicum speciosum RUBRUM and Colchicum speciosum ATRORUBENS. Bowles wrote "I think the best (of C speciosum) are the two listed as rubrum and atrorubens which are so much alike that even when growing close together I sometimes have to look at their labels to be certain to which stock they belong." Hm.Hm
The colours are exact.

Both outside!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Both inside!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Proportions of both!
But the colour isn`t OK.

[PeterT]

They are clearly different clones Hagen, but so similar - they could be from the same population or seed pod 

[Gail]

Thanks for taking those pictures Hans.  Curious that he didn't mention the size difference...,

[Brian Ellis]

From the glasshouse this morning.  Colchicum cupanii var cousturieri which I believe is the same as C. cupanii ssp cupanii.

[Boyed]

Hagen,

Thank you very much for taking time and efforts to shiow the differences between c. speciosum Rubrum and c. speciosum Atrorunens. The differences are obvious. Now I found an answer to the question that I asked for several years.

[Hagen Engelmann]

One of the later cultivars: HUXLEY, very globular!

[Herminarik]

Hi everybody,

Some of our Colchicum miniatures. Colchicum pieperannum bloomed already at the end of July, C. kochii and C. laetum Arzegur a some weeks later.