Colchicum macrophyllum
Species of flowering plant
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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]
| Colchicum macrophyllum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Colchicaceae |
| Genus: | Colchicum |
| Species: | C. macrophyllum |
| Binomial name | |
| Colchicum macrophyllum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum Pamp. | |
This plant is native to the area around the Aegean Sea (Turkey and Greece including Crete).[1][4]