Colchicums autumn 2007

[mark smyth]

OK thanks.

Here is my tiny Colchicum doing exactly what it did last year - first flower falls over as the second emerges. The second will fall when the third, just visible, opens. I know I'll forget but I need to get the paint brush out

And C. cupanii coming up through Oenothera acaulis that seeded on top.

[Anthony Darby]

Gosh, I wish I could grow this outside in a trough! Maybe you have a special one - Colchicum cupanii mourinho?

[Anthony Darby]

All my cupanii are under glass. Here are pics of the same plant today.

[Kees Jan]

There seem to be 4 leaves visible at the base of the two central flower tubes in your last cupanii picture. That's odd, it is supposed to have 2-3...  Also the leaves are perhaps not quite as well developed as you would normally expect in cupanii.

[David Nicholson]

Regardless of what it is Anthony, it's an absolute stunner.

[mark smyth]

Anthony, I really like your pea gravel top dressing

[mark smyth]

Here are the leaves of my white cupanii and C. coustouriri

[Anthony Darby]

Ah, Mark the pea gravel. That's from a tropical fish shop and probably OTT price-wise.

[Kees Jan]

Here are the leaves of my white cupanii and C. coustouriri

Hi Mark,

4 leaves in that cupanii coustourieri shoot... Interesting since cupanii is supposed to have 2-3 leaves, according to the brief description I have of this species. I would be interested to hear from others if more than 3 leaves occurs more often in C. cupanii.

[Boyed]

some  more pics of colchicums from my garden

[Maggi Young]

Just as well you included the hand in the C. umbrosum shot, or we might have missed it! Truly tiny, isn't it? Where is it from?

[hadacekf]

All my C. cupani have 2 leaves. They have a long flowering time. First flower at the beginning of September and the last in October. The flower is very variable.

[Maggi Young]

Franz,  most interesting variations in the C. cupanii, very good to see these forms together here.

[hadacekf]

Colchicum umbrosum grow in light woodland or scrub to 1500 m in Turkey, Crimea and Caucasus. The flower is small, usually 1 – 1, 5 cm diameter, with segments 1, 5 – 2, 5 cm long, often unequal and curved inwards at the apex. The colour is pale pink or whitish. I saw it not far from Artvin (Turkey).

[mark smyth]

very nice.