Colchicum 2011

[I.S.]

 Luc, this is a Merendera attica which has not a clear flower tube. It has like divided flower tube!
Here is my sample for this plant.

[Janis Ruksans]

For something more than week my colchicums got some fresh air, but blooming still very - I would like to explain as carefull. Next Wednesday will return hard frost and all pots again will be covered with glasswool sheets. So you can see here how looks Colchicum pots in greenhose today and two pictures of my Colchicum atticum (some still names them as Merendera attica). Not my most favourable species, but one of the earliest in spring.
On last picture shoots of autumn blooming C. sanguicolle clearly explaining why such name was given to this beautiful Colchicum.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more Colchicums of today.
Colchicum asteranthum
2 stocks of C. hirsutum (3 pictures)
and
2 stocks of C. serpentinum.
That is almost all blooming at present, few more only shows buds out of pots.
Janis

[LucS]

Luc, this is a Merendera attica which has not a clear flower tube. It has like divided flower tube!
Here is my sample for this plant.

Thanks Ibrahim.

[Arda Takan]

Luc, this is a Merendera attica which has not a clear flower tube. It has like divided flower tube!
Here is my sample for this plant.

There are hunderds of this plant here!. And most distinguishing characteristic is indeed the divided flower tube. Also it is fragrant.

[Alessandro.marinello]

we still have frost outside, this old closing of two weeks, within my greenhouse
Colchicum hungaricum

[mark smyth]

Colchicum kesselringii 'Purple Star'  beauty!

Here I have hungaricum, hungaricum Velebit Star, kesselringii, luteum and mirzovae

C. kesselringii in one of my troughs

[WimB]

Colchicum kesselringii 'Purple Star'  beauty!

Here I have hungaricum, hungaricum Velebit Star, kesselringii, luteum and mirzovae

C. kesselringii in one of my troughs

Mark,

WOW, do you grow your C. kesselringii outside in a trough? Without protection?

[Alessandro.marinello]

Mark
lovely , mine it seems grown in a period of scarcity

[Janis Ruksans]

Mark
lovely , mine it seems grown in a period of scarcity

No, no! It don't look as keselringii. From whom it comes under such name?
Janis

[PeterT]

Fabulous kesselringii Mark.
Thankyou for showing the different forms you have Janis, hirsutum is over here, atticum is not yet out.
 Merendera robustum, leptantherum i also took a picture of, and one which lost its lable - could it be hungaricum? also a picture of falcifolium from Norman stevens a few years ago

[Arda Takan]

Merendera is included in Colchicum but it differs by having no flower tube right?

[PeterT]

I believe so Arda, the picture is of a merendera , I cant remember if hungaricum has a tube.

[Diane Clement]

I believe so Arda, the picture is of a merendera , I cant remember if hungaricum has a tube.  

It does, here's the white form and the pink form
Colchicum hungaricum

[PeterT]

Thanks Diane, lovely hungaricum. The history of the lost lable is that i dismantled a trough, C hungaricum was also in the trough.
I labled the plant last year as being a merendera.