Colchicum boissieri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Liliales
- Family
- Colchicaceae
- Genus
- Colchicum
- Species
- Colchicum boissieri
- Scientific Name
- Colchicum boissieri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Colchicum boissieri
Colchicum boisseri is a plant species in the genus Colchicum (the autumn crocuses) native to southern Greece and south-western Turkey but cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental. The species is unique for its spreading, rhizomatous bulbs. It blooms well with 5 cm (2") blooms in a bright cherry pink. The stamens are yellow. The flowers have no tessellations, only a white line down the centre of each petal. It is named after botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Colchicum antepense
- Colchicum antilibanoticum
- Colchicum arenarium
- Colchicum autumnale
- Colchicum balansae
- Colchicum baytopiorum
- Colchicum bivonae
- Colchicum boissieri
- Colchicum burttii
- Colchicum chalcedonicum
- Colchicum chimonanthum
- Colchicum cilicicum
- Colchicum cretense
- Colchicum crocifolium
- Colchicum cupanii
- Colchicum doerfleri
- Colchicum fasciculare
- Colchicum feinbruniae
- Colchicum hierosolymitanum
- Colchicum hungaricum
- Colchicum laetum
- Colchicum leptanthum
- Colchicum lingulatum
- Colchicum macedonicum
- Colchicum macrophyllum
- Colchicum micranthum
- Colchicum parlatoris
- Colchicum parnassicum
- Colchicum peloponnesiacum
- Colchicum persicum
- Colchicum pusillum
- Colchicum ritchii
- Colchicum serpentinum
- Colchicum sfikasianum
- Colchicum speciosum
- Colchicum stevenii
- Colchicum triphyllum
- Colchicum troodi
- Colchicum tulakii
- Colchicum tunicatum
- Colchicum turcicum
- Colchicum tuviae
- Colchicum umbrosum
- Colchicum variegatum
- Colchicum zahnii
- Colchicum × agrippinum
- Colchicum × byzantinum










