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Colchicum boissieri
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Colchicum boisseri is a plant species in the genus Colchicum 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.
- Family
- Colchicaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Colchicum boissieri
- Slug
- colchicum-boissieri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Colchicaceae
- Genus
- Colchicum
- Species
- boissieri
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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