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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Susan Band on November 06, 2009, 06:58:40 PM

Title: Colchicum ID
Post by: Susan Band on November 06, 2009, 06:58:40 PM

Hi there, wondering if anybody can confirm this is Colchicum munzurense. Photo taken in March.
Thanks
Susan

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: mark smyth on November 06, 2009, 07:15:17 PM

Susan mine flowers in November

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: mark smyth on November 06, 2009, 07:21:40 PM

reply 32 here http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2812.30 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2812.30) Anthony's bulbs flowering in December

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 06, 2009, 09:23:08 PM

You'll notice that later in that post I suggest the Coclhicum munzerense is a spring flowering species. I have C. hirsutum out now, which was also out in December last year.

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: Thomas Huber on November 07, 2009, 08:57:49 AM

Susan, do you grow this plant outside? After the long last winter it could be that the late flowering plants have waited
until the frost was gone before they flowered, while Mark's and Anthony's plants in the greenhouse flowered earlier.

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: Susan Band on November 07, 2009, 10:02:50 AM

Mark/Thomas,
It was grown outside and I have found this photo taken on the 3rd Jan, the last one was taken on 13 march. A long time in flower. Also I have so much leavemold on them they take a while pushing through it.
Susan

Title: Re: Colchicum ID
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 07, 2009, 10:17:00 AM

You give us hope Susan, if this is surviving and growing well? :)