colchicum leaves for dinner
Jim McKenney (Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:13:57 PDT)

Arnold, I'm glad you posted that photo. The local slugs eat colchicum leaves
here, too. If I absentmindedly leave a colchicum corm on the ground, they
soon find it and gouge holes in it. So much for the often-repeated (and
copied into books) notion that nothing eats colchicums.

Whenever I see an especially husky gigantic slug I can't help but wonder if
its parents had been eating colchicum and had produced tetraploid progeny.

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA, where the slugs sometimes do down
the tube formed by the dead leaves of colchicum and feast on the underground
corm.