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Colchicum balansae
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Colchicum balansae is a variable species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae, producing white to rosy-purple flowers in the autumn season. The flowers are borne low to the ground, but can come from bulbs 50 cm (20") below the soil surface. The leaves are absent at flowering time; they start growing in the spring and can reach up to 30 cm (12") long. This species is native to southern Turkey and to Greece.
- Family
- Colchicaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Colchicum balansae
- Slug
- colchicum-balansae
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Colchicaceae
- Genus
- Colchicum
- Species
- balansae
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 28
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