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Autumn crocus

Colchicum bivonae

Description:

This species has a large bowl-shaped flower with heavily tessellated tepals. The tepals can be rounded or pointed and are rosy-purple in colour. It flowers in the autumn and the leaves and seeds are produced the next spring.

Habitat:

NP Paklenica, oak and beech forest

5 Comments

Jopy
Jopy 9 years ago

Thank you, Kostas :)

StirredMocha
StirredMocha 9 years ago

Looks more like Colchicum sp.

Jopy
Jopy 9 years ago

Thank you, guys! It's Crocus sp., I will try to find the ID at species level :)

Ernest Riera
Ernest Riera 9 years ago

It looks like some spices of Crocus sp.

Ahmed Mujcinovic
Ahmed Mujcinovic 9 years ago

Jel mrazovac u pitanju ili? Mislim liči na mrazovac samo je manje intenzivno obojen.

Jopy
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Jopy

Croatia

Spotted on Sep 7, 2014
Submitted on Sep 22, 2014

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