Colchicum "liparichoides"
Jane McGary (Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:40:37 PDT)

Thanks to Bob Nold's superior searching skills, I discovered a couple of
Russian botanical sites on which C. liparochiadys was given as a synonym
of Colchicum woronowii. I can't find an image of the latter to compare
with my plants, though.

Whatever this is, it's well worth growing, as are so many of these
compact Colchicum species. Sorry to hear Jim McKenney lost it. I'll lift
the corms next summer and try it on the rock garden too.

Mysterious names often derive from older floras published during the
Soviet era. There may have been official encouragement to botanists to
publish unique names for species described elsewhere under other names.
One can observe this tendency under autocratic regimes elsewhere as well.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon

On 9/26/2018 12:10 PM, penstemon wrote:

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