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Colchicum cilicicum (Boiss.) Dammer

Tenore Autumn Crocus

No habitat climate 24 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Colchicum cilicicum, the Tenore autumn crocus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. A bulbous perennial, it bears deep rose-lilac flowers in late summer, with barely any chequered pattern on the petals (tessellation). It has a very noticeable white stripe down the centre of each petal, which gives it a star-like appearance at the base. The flowers tend to stand up to weather better than other colchicum blooms. More on Wikipedia ›

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About the genus · Colchicum

Colchicum is a genus of perennial flowering plants containing around 160 species which grow from bulb-like corms. It is a member of the botanical family Colchicaceae, and is native to West Asia, Europe, parts of the Mediterranean coast, down the East African coast to South Africa and the Western Cape. In this genus, the ovary of the flower is underground. More on Wikipedia ›

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Family

Colchicaceae

Described by

(Boiss.) Dammer

Native to

Lebanon-Syria, Turkey

Wild records

none in range

Also known as Colchicum autumnale var. tenorei (Parl.) Fiori; Colchicum autumnale var. todaroi (Parl.) Fiori; Colchicum bisignanii Ten. ex Janka; Colchicum bivonae Ten.; Colchicum tenorei Parl. and 2 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Colchicum, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

NativeLebanon-Syria, Turkey

Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

Photographs: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC0, via GBIF (2); Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY, via GBIF (4); Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, CC0, via GBIF; unknown, CC0, via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Colchicum cilicicum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Alkaloids and Phenolics ofColchicum cilicicum1,2

N. Sütlüpınar, A. Husek, H. Potěšilová, Svatava Dvořáčková (1988) · Planta Medica

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Colchicum cilicicum (Boiss.) Dammer