CrocusMan

By TonyG

Colchicum montanum

One of the smallest colchicum, just a couple of inches high at its zenith. This is a plant that bursts into flower on sunny slopes and mountainsides in Spain and Portugal in response to the first rains of autumn. I recall walking over very 'crunchy' meadows in the Pyrenees in high summer, on close inspection the crunch turned out to be the dried leaves and seed pods of this Colchicum. A little seed that I collected took six years to make a flowering bulb!

(Location map shows where it grows in the wild)

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