Colchicum

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Fermi

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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #45 on: March 30, 2018, 12:00:49 PM »
This little one came as seed from Betty Clark in New Zealand as Colchicum arenarium.
Seed sown in 2011 and first flowers last year,
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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #46 on: July 08, 2019, 09:43:16 AM »
A few of the colchicums which flowered this year.
Starting with
1) Colchicum neapolitanum macranthum in March
2) Colchicum corsicum, still able to penetrate the dymondia mat
3) Colchicum byzanthium in April
4) Colchicum NOT sibthorbii
5) Colchicum decaisnei in late May.
6) Colchicum cupanii in June (this came from a friend in Melbourne whose own plants flowered a month earlier! He got it initially as Colchicum zahnii, then was told it was actually C. psairdis and finally, no, it's C. cupanii! Whatever ::) it's a sweet little thing but would be lost in the garden so I keep it in a pot
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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Alisdair

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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #47 on: July 09, 2019, 11:05:14 AM »
Nice to see them, Fermi; thanks! The last one, especially with that corm that's obviously tucked against the side of the pot, does look a bit as if it's stoloniferous, which is a marker for C. psaridis....
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Fermi

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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #48 on: July 09, 2019, 12:39:36 PM »
That's my suspicion as well, Alistair!  ;D
Especially  comparing it to the pic you posted on the second page of this thread,
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Fermi

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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #49 on: March 04, 2020, 02:19:21 PM »
This is a Colchicum which I originally got from a friend in the 1980s as "Lilac Major" which is possibly a form of Colchicum byzantinum
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Re: Colchicum
« Reply #50 on: April 04, 2020, 10:47:19 AM »
Colchicum boissieri from Hillview Rare Plants a couple of years ago
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!