Colchicums autumn 2007

[Gerdk]

Thomas,
Just an addition: Strid (in Mountain Flora of Greece) lists Colchicum autumnale for Mt. Falakron.

Gerd

[Lesley Cox]

Thankfully my white cupanii is still alive. How do I increase it from one to two or more bulbs?

You wait - and wait

[mark smyth]

yeah and then it dies!

[Lesley Cox]

Well of course. That's what you were waiting for

[mark smyth]

Tony if this was a Crocus would you love it!

[tonyg]

Mark - if my crocus had twisted petals like that I would dig it up and burn it

[Maggi Young]

Now this is interesting: Tony doesn't likethe twisted petals on Mark's colchicum and wouldn't like it on his crocus......I'm not keen on it either BUT, I DO like some of Graham Fleming's "failed" daff hybrids with twisted petals...  WHY?  Odd that something one regards as a fault in one flower is found attractive in another.... well, no, not "attractice" maybe that's too strong... "acceptable" is better. I wouldn't seek twisted daffs, but do not find them so strange that I cannot tolerate them....funny old world, isn't it? Sometimes therejust isn't a clue

[Thomas Huber]

Seems like I have to learn a lot about variability of Colchicum autumnale 

Some more have appeared in my garden:

Colchicum kochii from Croatia
Colchicum troodi from Turkey
Colchicum coustrurieri

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Your C.decaisne is a delicate little beauty Thomas !

[Gerdk]

and here is Colchicum pusillum

Gerd

[Anthony Darby]

Now I do like that one Gerd.

[I.S.]

Thomas!
It seems you have nice colchicum collection too.
In my colchicum list Colchicum troodi is registered under the name of Colchicum decaisnei as a synonym.
In your pictures they are quite different. Am I wrong?
That is the list which I want to use as a main draft.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:msIO1lrQbaYJ:journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-05-29-4/bot-29-4-8-0409-9.pdf

[Thomas Huber]

Uuupsss - sorry! Of course you're right Ibrahim: troodi is a pseudonym of decaisne   
The plant above is in fact Colchicum coustrurieri - I have already changed the name
in my posting

Nice pusillum Gerd 

[mark smyth]

Here's Colchicum 'Jarka'. Pinched petals on Colchicums must be the same as green tipped Galanthus. Both are pinched in

[tonyg]

OH!!  And I thought Harlekjin was a one-off.