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Colchicum macrophyllum

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Colchicum macrophyllum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Colchicaceae
Genus:
Colchicum
Species:
C. macrophyllum
Binomial name
Colchicum macrophyllum
Synonyms[1]

Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum Pamp.

Colchicum macrophyllum has large, funnel-shaped flowers in the fall with much tessellation throughout the bloom. The colour is rosy-purple and white. The leaves that it produces in the spring are large, up to 16" (40 cm) long, among the largest of all colchicum species.[2][3]

This plant is native to the area around the Aegean Sea (Turkey and Greece including Crete).[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Colchicum macrophyllum
  2. ^ Brian Laurence Burtt. 1951. Kew Bulletin 5(3): 433, Colchicum macrophyllum
  3. ^ Pampanini, Renato. 1926. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, ser. 2, 33: 24, Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum
  4. ^ Autumn Bulbs by Roy Leeds (B.T. Batsford Ltd) 2006 ISBN 0-7134-8962-6


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