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Camptorrhiza strumosa

Colchicum are perennial plants that grow from corms, featuring typically coarse, broad, strap-like leaves. These leaves may emerge alongside or following the goblet-shaped blooms.

Colchicum

Colchicum 'Antares'

Colchicum 'Artur Klark'

Colchicum 'Attlee'

Colchicum 'Autumn Herald'

Colchicum 'Autumn Queen' is a perennial that grows from corms, featuring substantial, fragrant flowers that emerge in early autumn. Each flower has a goblet shape, displaying rose-pink petals with a white center and distinctive purple chequerboard patterns, all arising from a white perianth tube. In spring, this plant produces narrow, semi-erect leaves, which reach approximately 20 cm in length but die back by summer.

Colchicum 'Autumn Queen'

Colchicum 'Beaconsfield'

Colchicum 'Benton End' is a perennial that flowers in autumn, featuring slender blooms with pinkish-purple petals that form a goblet shape, accented by a white star pattern in the center. The flowers emerge from a greyish-purple perianth tube. In spring, the plant produces narrow, semi-erect leaves, which diminish in size and eventually fade by summer. This cultivar establishes itself readily in garden settings.

Colchicum 'Benton End'

Colchicum 'Constable'

Colchicum 'Daendels'

Colchicum 'Danton'

Colchicum 'Darwin'

Colchicum 'Dick Trotter' is a perennial that grows from corms, reaching a height of 15 to 20 cm. It produces long leaves, approximately 25 cm, that emerge from winter until spring. In the autumn, this plant showcases goblet-shaped flowers in a pink-violet hue, featuring greenish-white centers and yellow anthers. Additionally, colchicums serve as a valuable source of late-season pollen for honeybees.

Colchicum 'Dick Trotter'

Colchicum 'Disraeli' is a corm-based perennial that reaches a height of up to 15 cm. It features goblet-shaped blooms that emerge in clusters close to the ground during the autumn months. The flowers exhibit a magenta hue, displaying subtly patterned petals with a white central area. In spring, narrow, ovate leaves develop after the flowering period.

Colchicum 'Disraeli'

Colchicum 'E.A. Bowles'

Colchicum 'Enigma'

Colchicum 'Fabergé's Silver'

Colchicum 'Felbrigg Violet'

Colchicum 'Felbrigg' is a cormous perennial that blooms in early autumn. Its robust flowers feature a goblet shape with pinkish-purple petals surrounding a central white star, all held up by a pale green tube. In spring, it produces slender, semi-erect leaves that grow to approximately 20 cm in length but will wither by summer. This variety tends to spread well in the garden.

Colchicum 'Felbrigg'

Colchicum 'Fellbrigg Violet'

Colchicum 'Flamenco Dance'

Colchicum 'Fuller's Mill'

Colchicum 'Giant' is a sturdy perennial that grows to about 20 cm in height. It features semi-erect leaves that are narrowly ovate and measure between 18 to 25 cm long, appearing from winter through spring. In the autumn, it produces a series of up to five goblet-shaped flowers, reaching lengths of up to 8 cm. These flowers display lightly patterned tepals, predominantly purple-violet with white bases. Colchicums serve as an important late-season pollen source for honeybees.

Colchicum 'Giant'

Colchicum 'Glory of Heemstede'

Colchicum 'Glory of Threave' is a perennial plant that grows from corms and features slender, upright flowers that emerge in the autumn. Each flower consists of a cup of glossy, pinkish-purple petals, centered with a white star, and attached to a dark purple perianth tube. In spring, it produces narrow, semi-erect leaves that reach around 20 cm in length, which will fade by summer.

Colchicum 'Glory of Threave'

Colchicum 'Gothic Style'

Colchicum 'Gracia'

Colchicum 'Hannibal'

Colchicum 'Harlekijn'

Colchicum 'Huxley'

Colchicum 'Jarka'

Colchicum 'Jolanthe'

Colchicum 'Joseph'

Colchicum 'Larisa'

Colchicum 'Lilac Bedder'

Colchicum 'Lilac Wonder' is a sturdy, prolific cormous perennial that reaches a height of 15 cm. It features semi-erect, narrowly ovate leaves measuring 18-25 cm in length, which appear from winter into spring. In autumn, this plant produces 4-10 goblet-shaped flowers, each 4-6 cm long, characterized by narrow, deep lilac-pink tepals and prominent golden anthers. Colchicums serve as a valuable source of pollen for honeybees during the late growing season.

Colchicum 'Lilac Wonder'

Colchicum 'Little Woods' is a small, corm-based perennial that reaches a height of approximately 10 cm. In the spring, it produces narrow, strap-like green leaves that emerge after the funnel-shaped flowers, which are lilac-pink and bloom in autumn.

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