Colchicum ID

[arillady]

I will have to try for a better close-up to post.
Thanks for the different references to look up.
I have just taken a couple of closer photos to try to show the soft all over stripey effect in the pink.

[Otto Fauser]

Good Morning Pam ,
 I am almost certain your Colchicum is C.cilicicum 'purpureum' , with it's yellow
anthers and long white styles with a purple tip . It has been grown here in Australia
 for a long time - an excellent garden plant.
      Otto.

[arillady]

Yes a delightful good morning to you too Otto - and thanks for the name.

[fermi de Sousa]

I suppose I need to re-post my pic of the Colchicum I grew from AGS Seedex 2001 as C. bivonae but which isn't!




It's not very tall as can be seen by comparison to the label and seems a nice clear colour. I can remember the foliage but it isn't excessive.
cheers
fermi

[Oron Peri]

Otto asked me to post this pic for him to try to get an ID.
It was grown from JJA Seed 2002 as Colchicum troodii (= C. decaisnei) collected Hatay, Turkey.
But he feels it isn't C. decaisnei and wonders if it might be C. cilicicum becuse of the pale line down the middle of the tepals?
cheers
fermi on behalf of Otto.

Otto
You are right, this has to be C. cilicium, and Pat's is C. cilicium 'Purpureum'.
C. troodii [C. decaisnei] looks different, and even easier to distinguish when in leaves, 3 leaves almost connected at the base 'standing' on a leg. both species bloom at the same time.

[arillady]

Thanks Oron for the approval of Otto's id for my old garden clone.

[Otto Fauser]

Thank you Oron , for putting the final stamp on the identity of my C. cilicicum .
 At the moment I also have decaisnei in flower , it looks like your photo , I grew it from seed :Colchicum sp. -collected Nur Dag , Turkey .

[Ray]

Another Colchicum that i need an ID for thanks bye Ray

[Ray]

Another Colchicum ID required thanks bye Ray

[Paul T]

Ray,

I'd be thinking that your last one is cilicicum, similar to Pat's at the start of this topic?

[Ray]

Hi Paul,thanks for the ID.bye Ray