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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Otto Fauser on July 11, 2009, 12:46:11 PM
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Before the autumnflowering Colchicum season starts in the Northern Hemisphere ,here are
a few winterflowering species in bloom in my garden this week . I'm not a 100% sure
if my C. stevenii is true to name .-what other species could it be ?Would like to know
the correct name,
Otto.
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Sorry forgot the names :
1-COlch. ?stevenii
2 " doerfleri
3 " szovitzii
4 " burtii
5 " hungaricum
Otto.
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Wow, Otto. I've usually only ever seen the lutea and kesselringii in winter. I don't think I realised there were that many more. Just love the leaves on the second one.... they look so furry. Great to see so many new ones. 8)
Edit by maggi; I've made a new page for these..... bit late for the "early" page"....so "July" it is!
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Before the autumnflowering Colchicum season starts in the Northern Hemisphere ,here are
a few winterflowering species in bloom in my garden this week . I'm not a 100% sure
if my C. stevenii is true to name .-what other species could it be ?Would like to know
the correct name,
Otto.
Dear Otto,
I'm in home now and can't check but if my memory still didn't fail - stevenii has many leaves, more than ten at least but there can be some confusion with naming, too. I will check on Monday when I will be at my literature in office.
Janis
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Otto,
I agree with Janis, it is not C. stevenii [ has many more linear leaves and flowers per bulb]
Seems more like C. cupanii to me...?
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I agree with Oron. I think too it looks like C. cupanii.
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Otto your Colchicum is magnificent, remains astonished to see in flower in this period :o
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Janis , Oron , Franz, thank you for your comments , but it can't be C. cupanii , which I do
grow and which is an autumnflowering species . The '?C. stevenii' is flowering now[winter]
and is a larger plant , broader leaves and looks more like C. burtii . Most important is the
fact that the seed was collected in Turkey where cupanii does not grow .
Just spoke to Marcus Harvey in Tasmania ,who together with Norman Stevens collected the
seeds near Antalya , in the area where Crocus mathewii grows., on the road from Kalkan
to Elmali , a short distance before the 'Flowery Pass'. Janis you will know where that is .
So we still need a name for it .
Otto.
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Otto, very nice colchicum.
Here is my first autumn flowering. It has rained a lot lately so it is a bit dirty.
Poul
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my first one of the year has shot into flower.
It is from Mt Parnassus in Greece
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my first one of the year has shot intop flower.
It is from Mt Parnassus in Greece
Tony,
Is it Col. graecum? I have not success with that. In 3 successive years I have planted this, but in spring the bulb was rotten ever if there is excellent drainage. This spring there was leaves, so I hope for flowers soon. How do you grow it?
Poul
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I do not know the species,I think they have had the splitters at work on them. I grow it in a pot in a cold frame kept dry in summer in a gritty compost. No special treatment.
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My first Colchicum, the rare, 'Lost Label' cultivar opened this week. It's small. I'll post a photo later.
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First noticed on July 22nd was this Colchicum. Anyone know which it could be?
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I have Colchicum graecum coming out now. A bit of a thug! I certainly wouldn't be planting it with Leucojum autumnalis, or Crocus vallicola, as has been suggested. ::)
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I hope Colchicums arent coming out early this year. I have plans for a bed for all my big Colchicums and nothing else
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Graecum flowers normally in July/August.
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Janis , Oron , Franz, thank you for your comments , but it can't be C. cupanii , which I do
grow and which is an autumnflowering species . The '?C. stevenii' is flowering now[winter]
and is a larger plant , broader leaves and looks more like C. burtii . Most important is the
fact that the seed was collected in Turkey where cupanii does not grow .
Just spoke to Marcus Harvey in Tasmania ,who together with Norman Stevens collected the
seeds near Antalya , in the area where Crocus mathewii grows., on the road from Kalkan
to Elmali , a short distance before the 'Flowery Pass'. Janis you will know where that is .
So we still need a name for it .
Otto.
Regarding the mysterious Colchicum Otto refers, it is C. triphyllum.
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Janis , Oron , Franz, thank you for your comments , but it can't be C. cupanii , which I do
grow and which is an autumnflowering species . The '?C. stevenii' is flowering now[winter]
and is a larger plant , broader leaves and looks more like C. burtii . Most important is the
fact that the seed was collected in Turkey where cupanii does not grow .
Just spoke to Marcus Harvey in Tasmania ,who together with Norman Stevens collected the
seeds near Antalya , in the area where Crocus mathewii grows., on the road from Kalkan
to Elmali , a short distance before the 'Flowery Pass'. Janis you will know where that is .
So we still need a name for it .
Otto.
Regarding the mysterious Colchicum Otto refers, it is C. triphyllum.
Here's the photo again.....C. triphyllum
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Thanks Maggi.
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My pleasure, Oron. :)
Seems easier to have he photo near the name.... and Mark is also seeking an ID so it saves confusion with that.
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Maggi , many thanks for putting a name to the Colchicum .
I had been in contact with Oron last week and we both agreed that it had to be C. triphyllum - it is widespread in that area .
The season of the winterflowering Colchicums is coming to the end here - only luteum
and diampolis still in bloom .