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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Hans J on October 28, 2007, 08:02:00 PM

Title: unknown Colchicum
Post by: Hans J on October 28, 2007, 08:02:00 PM

Hi all ,

Here is a pic of a unknown Colchicum which I have found in the mountains of Karpathos - on a altitude of 1200 m .
I know the quality is not the best .....but it is not always easy to take pic in the wild !
We have found only this one flowering plant !!!
The size of the flower is like a Crocus !
Could this be C. cretensis ?

Thank you for any ideas
Hans

Title: Re: unknown Colchicum
Post by: Hans J on November 03, 2007, 05:43:00 PM

Here a other unknow Colchicum which flowered today :

Title: Re: unknown Colchicum
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 03, 2007, 11:16:45 PM

I thought Colchicum cretense had very dark anthers?

Title: Re: unknown Colchicum
Post by: tonyg on November 03, 2007, 11:36:42 PM

Hans could your first unknown be Colchicum baytopiorum?  I grow a form of this with smallish flowers and bright yellow markings in the throat.

A link to an article on Colchicum in Turkey - which is just over the water: 
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-05-29-4/bot-29-4-8-0409-9.pdf

Title: Re: unknown Colchicum
Post by: Hans J on November 04, 2007, 08:44:12 AM

Hi Antony + Tony ,

Thank you for your comments .
I have not found much pics of C. cretense - my idea was only that Karpathos is not so far from Crete ....
The  link interesting about Colchicum in Turkey is interesting .....but there no pics !
I googled for a pic but I found it is a bit different - maybe it is a new species -I think this island has not visit so much botanists .
Karpathos is not so very near Turkey -it is between Crete and Rhodes