Colchicum 'Waterlily'

 

 

 

학명 : Colchicum 'Waterlily'

분류 : Colchicaceae

 

Common Name: autumn crocus

 

사진 : 2022.12.11 서울식물원

 

 

 

 

설명

 

Noteworthy Characteristics

Colchicum is a genus of about 45 species of plants from alpine and subalpine meadows and hillsides in Europe, North Africa, West and Central Asia, North India and West China. Many are called autumn crocus because they bloom in fall but some species bloom in winter or spring. Species flowers can be purple, pink, lilac, yellow or white. In late spring, each autumn crocus corm sends up a clump of basal foliage (4-6 lance-shaped, dark green leaves to 14” long). Foliage gradually yellows and dies by summer as the plants go dormant. Naked flower stems rise from the ground to 4-6” tall in late summer to early fall bearing goblet-shaped flowers (to 3” long).

 

Genus name come from the abundance of the plant in Colchis, the Black Sea region of Georgia, Caucasus.

 

The "crocus" part of the common name for this plant is misleading, because autumn crocus is in the colchicum family whereas spring crocus is in the iris family. Autumn crocuses produce foliage in spring (foliage dies by summer) and flowers in fall (each having six stamens and a superior ovary). Spring crocuses produce both foliage and flowers in spring, with each flower having three stamens and an inferior ovary. Plants in the genus Colchicum are also sometimes commonly called meadow saffron or colchicum which avoids the crocus name confusion. Colchicine is extracted from seeds and corms of genus plants for medical use in the treatment of gout and for horticultural use in the hybridization of plants and chromosome doubling.

 

'Waterlily' is a hybrid resulting from a cross of Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum' and Colchicum speciosum 'Album'. Each flower reportedly resembles in appearance the form of a water lily, hence the cultivar name. Large, fully double, lilac-pink flowers bloom in late summer to early fall on naked stems to 6" tall. Each corm will produce from 1-6 flowers.

 

설명 출처

 

https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=244395

 

 

 

위 설명에서 본 Colchicum과   Crocus의 차이

 

	Colchicum	Crocus
과	Colchicaceae	Iridaceae
common Name	Autumn Crocus	Spring Crocus
잎과 꽃	봄에 개엽; 여름에 고사	봄에 잎과 꽃이 함께 나옴
	보통 가을에 개화, 일부는 겨울 또는 봄에 개화