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mark smyth

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Colchicum euboeum
« on: August 27, 2015, 02:17:36 PM »
At the bulb sale on Sunday I bought

Colchicum 'Euboeum' JCA87 ex Felbrigg. 

All I can find on the internet is it should be Colchicum euboeum.

Anyone know anything about it?
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Re: Colchicum euboeum
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2015, 02:40:02 PM »
   JCA/JJA ref. I can find is : 312.600 : COLCHICUM EUBOEUM

From the Colchicum of Greece paper:

Colchicum euboeum (Boiss.) K. Persson, 1998

syns. C. latifolium Sm. var. euboeum Boiss., 1882

C. bivonae Guss. subsp. euboeum (Boiss.) Nyman, 1882

C. sibthorpii Baker subsp. euboeum (Orph.) K.Richt., 1890

Distribution: Endemic to Evvoia and Chalkidiki.
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Re: Colchicum euboeum
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2015, 03:31:15 PM »
There's a short description, distribution map & photo here.
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Re: Colchicum euboeum
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2015, 04:40:45 PM »
Thanks you two. Thinking I should have bought all when I had the chance LOL  :D
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Re: Colchicum euboeum
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2015, 06:16:14 PM »
Marc, I posted a picture of this colchicum in "colchicum 2015" .
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Re: Colchicum euboeum
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2015, 06:53:55 PM »
Marc, I posted a picture of this colchicum in "colchicum 2015" .

Indeed you did.....
 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12716.msg338418#msg338418
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