4505 x 2466 px | 38,1 x 20,9 cm | 15 x 8,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
6 octobre 2013
Lieu:
Samos Greece
Informations supplémentaires:
The flower is distinguished by its very strong purple tessellation (checkerboard marking). Colchicum species contain poisonous alkaloids, such as colchicine. When these poisonous alkaloids are accidentally ingested by humans and animals, they cause very serious health problems such as serious liver damage and finally death. All parts of Colchicum species have been shown to contain contain colchicine Flowers 1-2 (-3), rotate; perianth tube exceeding the cataphyll by 2-10 cm, white or yellowish-white; segments 2-5.5 (-7) x 0.5-2.5 cm, lanceolate to elliptic, each segment 10-21 veins, light or dark violet-purple, strongly tessellated, obtuse to acute, without auricles at base, filament channels glabrous. Stamens 1/2 or more longer of perianth limb in length; filaments 1.5-3.5 (-4) cm, white, cream or yellowish-white, glabrous; anthers 4-10 x 0.5-1.2 mm, purple, purplish-black or purplish-brown, without membranous margin. Styles straight or slightly curved and swollen at apex, cream, yellowish-white, light purplish-pink or violet-purple, stigmas decurrent for 0.5-2 mm. Capsule 1-4 x 0.8-1.5 (-2) cm, elliptic to oblong-ovoid, light or dark brown dotted when dry, obtuse, glabrous; seeds 1.5-4 mm diam., ovoid to subglobose, sometimes flattened laterally, light to dark brown. Flowering time: September-November. Distribution: This species is native from Turkey and Greece: South, West and Central Anatolia and adjacent Aegean islands, Cyclades.
