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Internal ID UUID644025a5dee3d847506111
Scientific name Colchicum macrophyllum
Authority B.L.Burtt
First published in Kew Bull. 5: 433 (1950 publ. 1951)

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It is a hardy plant and can survive in a variety of climates, from temperate to subtropical. It is a perennial bulbous plant that produces large, funnel-shaped flowers in the fall. The flowers are rosy-purple and white in colour and have much tessellation throughout the bloom. The leaves it produces in the spring are large, up to 16" (40 cm) long, among the largest of all colchicum species. It is native to the area around the Aegean Sea (Turkey and Greece including Crete) and is hardy enough to survive in a variety of climates, from temperate to subtropical.

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Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. n.s., 33: 24. 1926

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Czech ocún velkolistý

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000763954
Tropicos 50186799
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:533335-1
The Plant List kew-302892
Open Tree Of Life 242254
Observations.org 133014
NCBI Taxonomy 225787
IPNI 533335-1
iNaturalist 363492
GBIF 2739971
Freebase /m/0czdp5t
EOL 1087022
Elurikkus 294038
Wikipedia Colchicum_macrophyllum

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Large scale screening of commonly used Iranian traditional medicinal plants against urease activity Nabati F, Mojab F, Habibi-Rezaei M, Bagherzadeh K, Amanlou M, Yousefi B Daru 31-Oct-2012
PMCID:PMC3556030
doi:10.1186/2008-2231-20-72
PMID:23351780

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