Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 1028

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-COMMON_NAMES- Chequer-flowered Meadow-saffron
-GENUS- Colchicum
-SPECIES- Colchicum variegatum
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Trigynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Colchicum
-MODERN_SPECIES- Colchicum variegatum
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae. Also placed in: Colchicaeae.

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- deep red or violet purple
-SEASON- autumn
-NATIVE_REGION- "Native of the Greek Islands. Others of the chequered kind
                 are said to come from Portugal and Naples."
-ZONE- 8

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 26
-PUB_DATE- 1807
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0401 IMG0022.PCD
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