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Title: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 17, 2008, 05:36:03 AM: Last year during our small expeditions throughout the country me managed to find a gigantic form of colchicum speciosum. It was found by my wife among the thounsands of colchicum szovitsii plants, that knocked us out by its enormal sizes. A colchicum specialist from GB Sweeden thinks that it is hexaploid. I can only say that it is sterile and doesn't set seeds.

Last year I planted it in the pot to test this sample in the culture and was very happy to see that large sizes are permanent feature. It is some 20 cm tall with flowers eaqualing in sizes to crocus vernus large-flowering hybrids. For short, it have the same sizes as autumn colchicum byzantinum, but having stonger tubes and thicker constitution of petals. I hope that next year it'll perform all its beauty and strength.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: mark smyth on March 17, 2008, 07:57:02 AM: It looks great. Can I be first on the waiting list? :)
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 17, 2008, 08:10:59 AM: Mark,

Pleased to hear that you like it. I am always happy to share plants with bulb enthusist like me. I have now a single plant and as it multiplies I will certainly remember you.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on March 17, 2008, 10:06:12 AM: Zhirair, what a very handsome form the colchicum has.... your wife deserves congratulations for her fine eye for a good plant 8)
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 17, 2008, 10:18:28 AM: Maggi,

Thanks! My wife, really has a keen eye in finding plants, especially after blooming and I often take her with me when searching plants. This colchicum is going to be named after her just 'Alla'.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on March 17, 2008, 10:46:52 AM: Zhirair, how lovely, yes, that is a fitting reward for Alla's cleverness 8)
We wives have many uses, do we not? ;) :D
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 17, 2008, 11:01:02 AM: Maggi,

Certainly, there is no doubt about that and I think that many will agree. My wife highly inspires me in doing many things with great pleasure.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: dominique on March 17, 2008, 04:19:46 PM: Great find by Alla ! This Colchicum is very beautiful and I would be glad to be the second on the waiting list after Mark, Zhirair.
Do you know the difference beetween Tulipa linifolia and Tulipa maximowicziana
Tulipa montana and Tulipa wilsonniana
Mine seem the same
Thank you . Thank Alla

Edit by M. : replies to this tulip question have been moved to the Tulipa thread
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: I.S. on March 18, 2008, 11:51:35 AM: Here is a strange Colchicum.
In one location it flowers in autum and in another location it flowers in spring. :-\
Colchicum minutum which I think that it is.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: dominique on March 18, 2008, 12:31:11 PM: Gerry and Alan thank you for the light about these species.edit by M. : refers to replies moved to Tulipa thread
Marvellous pics, Thank you Ibrahim
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Paul T on March 19, 2008, 10:31:16 AM: Here in Canberra, Australia it is Colchicum season...... have had purpurascens, cilicicum, 'The Giant', aggripinum, byzantinum album, cretense and a couple of others in flower already despite a couple of years of neglect in pots without repotting. have repotted everything this year so next year the flowers should be much better I'd imagine. Amazing what they can survive, isn't it!!?
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 27, 2008, 09:03:42 AM: colchicum szovitsii in my garden (replanted from wild last year)
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on March 27, 2008, 09:07:21 AM: merendera trygina (pink and white forms) photographed during yesterday's trip to the mountains
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: art600 on March 27, 2008, 11:23:10 AM: How fantastic to have the mountains so close, and what treasures they contain.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: art600 on March 27, 2008, 11:35:10 AM: Last year I asked for help in identifying a white colchicum, that I hoped might be 'Cretan White'

I now post 2 photos of the leaves, together with an original photo of the flower, and hope somebody can positively identify it.

Thanks
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on April 02, 2008, 06:04:31 AM: some more pics from my last mountain hyking
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Paul T on April 02, 2008, 07:55:36 AM: And while you have those Merendera flowering in your area..... I have Merendera montana flowering for me at the moment here in the southern hemisphere. ;D
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on April 02, 2008, 08:01:31 AM: Paul,

I hope you'll show the pic of merendera montana.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Paul T on April 02, 2008, 08:12:27 AM: Zhirair,

Happy to, as you're interested. It's in a pot, rather than naturally occurring of course. ;DI figured it was most likely the commonest type of Merendera so wouldn't be of great interest.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Boyed on April 02, 2008, 08:29:29 AM: Paul,

Thanks for posting the photo. It's a cuttie, anyway!
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: Paul T on April 02, 2008, 08:34:36 AM: It seems so delicate, as the petals are so long and thin. So very different to the Colchicums which it resembles in superficial ways.
Title: Re: Colchicums March 2008
Post by: art600 on April 11, 2008, 10:15:28 AM: Quote from: art600 on March 27, 2008, 11:35:10 AM
Last year I asked for help in identifying a white colchicum, that I hoped might be 'Cretan White'

I now post 2 photos of the leaves, together with an original photo of the flower, and hope somebody can positively identify it.

Thanks

Surely someone must know whether my Colchicum are macrophyllum. The leaves are now nearly 12 inches high so qualify as 'macro' Thanks in advance