Colchicum autumnal. The most famous of them. Flowers large, the goblet shape, a diameter of about 3 cm, a height of 5 - 6 cm long tubes, coloring - from purple to white. Corms 3-4 cm in diameter, oval-shaped, covered with black-brown scales, give 2 - 4, sometimes 6 flowers. Leaves 20 cm long, oval elliptic, folded. Plant height of 15-20 cm and leaves, and during the flowering 10-14 cm. Blossoms from mid-September, in the cool summer even earlier. Forms annually mature seeds. The leaves die back in early July.
Colchicum speciosum (S. Speciosum) Also a fairly famous appearance. Its flowers are very large, from a purulent pink to white coloring with a whitish tube. Flowers Flowers were a funnel-shaped, height of a funnel of 7 cm, a diameter of about 5 cm. The length of the tube is 10 cm. Cyclic tuberukovitsa, often not an inquiry, with a diameter of 5 cm, 7 cm height, covered with interpatible dark brown scales, each forms up to 4 flowers. Spring appears wide-elliptic leaves, up to 20 cm long. Sometimes they are folded and with wavy edges. The height of flowering plants is 18 cm. Flowers in the late summer - early autumn for 20-25 days. The Kolkhikum is a magnificent known a lot of garden forms with white / pink, purple, pale-lilac, as well as with terry flowers.
Bournemulller's unmarked (S. bornmuellerii) - very decorative, but for now a rare view. Flowers wide opening, with a diameter of 8 cm and about 5 cm with a height. The color of them is pink with a purple base of the whin, the tube is greenish. Clubnellukovitsa oval shape, 8 cm high, with a diameter of 4-6 cm. In the spring, broad-diameters are formed, 20 cm long, 10 cm wide. The height of flowering plants is 15 cm. Blooms in the first half of September. Very beautiful flower, of course, it is impossible to speak unequivocally here, since everyone has his own vision of the beautiful.
Unlimited Vizantine (S. Byzantinum) has long been introduced in 
culture, but there is little common. Very decorative. Pink-pink flowers, somewhat larger than the unscrewed autumn. Clubnellukovitsa of irregular shape, very large, with a diameter of about 7 cm, forms up to 12 flowers. Wireless, folded leaves - up to 30 cm long and 10-15 cm wide - in spring appear. Flowers since the end of summer - in autumn. Flowering period enough long.
At nightlessness And the clubnewukovitsa, and the above-ground organs contain alkaloids, so these poisonous plants. One of the alkaloids - collision is used in experimental genetics and breeding work. Many types of unscrews are medicinal plants. For example, an alkaloid collum used in oncology is obtained from the tubnelukovits of a non-laminator. And of course, they are valuable decorative plants. Unfreights are especially spectacular in mass, good on the flower beds, groups on lawns, this is the best decoration for the Alpine slides. Large-flowered species suitable for cutting.
Interesting in the country: Technologies that make life easier, reached dacha, water treatment and autonomous sewage for a country house. Arrangement of a well for water and drilling. There is more time to rest and singing from the fire with water supply and sewage.
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