FAMILY | ALSTROEMERIACEAE

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Gardening | Plant ID

peruvian lilies

Alstroemeriaceae is distributed in tropical and temperate America, from Mexico to the southern tip of South America.

Peruvian lily, Lilies of the Incas (Alstroemeria aurea)
Taken April 2017:  The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Because it has a long vase life, Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria) is often used in bouquets. It has trumpet shaped flowers, solitary or borne in umbels. Plants of this genus grow from a cluster of tuberous roots.  Alstroemeria was named for Baron Clas Alströmer (1736 – 1794), a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg, Sweden which was managed by the botanist Anders Dahl (the dahlia's namesake). 

References.                                                          

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Family | Colchicaceae

GARDENING | PLANT ID

Colchicaceae is a family  of flowering  plants that includes 15 genera with a total of about 285 known species.

the genus COLCHICUM  

Colchicum autumnale, commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron, or naked ladies, is a poisonous plant. The name "naked ladies" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long before the leaves appear. Despite the vernacular name of "meadow saffron", this plant is not the source of saffron, which is obtained from the saffron crocus, Crocus sativus – and that plant too is sometimes called "autumn crocus".

AUTUMN CROCUS, MEADOW SAFFRON, naked lady flower on myrtle leaves 

COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE 

COLCHICACEAE FAMILY

a comparison of 2 autumn flowering, autumn CROCUSes from different families

Meadow saffron and saffron crocus are both autumn flowering crocus, but of differing families. We get the saffron used in cooking from the saffron crocus (crocus sativus) 
Note, the colchium has an irregularly shaped corm and the crocus used for saffron has a symmetrically shaped corm. Colchium is a perennial herb with leaves up to 25 cm (10 in) long. The flowers are solitary, 4–7 cm (2–3 in) across, with six tepals and six stamens with orange anthers and three white styles. Crocuses have 3 stamens and 3 styles.

SAFFRON CROCUS
CROCUS SATIVUS IRIDACEAE FAMILY
KOHLER'S MEDIZINAL PFLANZ 
FRANZ EUGEN KOHLER, 1897
(Source of saffron spice)

COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE 
OTTO WILHELM THOME 1885, 
GERA, GERMANY

FLORA VON DEUTSCHLAND, 
OSTERREICH UND DER SCHWEIZ
(Contains colchine, a drug)

the genus Baeometra                                        

Baeometra uniflora (Jacq.) G.J.Lewis 

[as Melanthium uniflorum Jacq.]

Plants Illustrated

N.J. von Jacquin, Icones plantarum rariorum, vol. 2: 

t. 450 (1786-1793)

Table 1: Genera of the Colchicaceae Family

Table 1: Genera 0f Colchicaceae Family
		TAXON				ORIGIN		HISTORIES, SYMBOLISM, PURPOSES
Order	Family	Common Name	Taxon Full Name	Intraspecific Epithet	Cultivar	Country of Origin	Cultivated Origin	Biblical, OED	Medicinal, pigments	landscape
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Androcymbium			Cape Province and Canary Island
Liliales	Colchicaceae	beetle lily	Baeometra			South Africa
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Burchardia			Australia
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Camptorrhiza			India and South Africa
Liliales	Colchicaceae	autumn crocus, meadow saffron and naked lady	Colchicum (including Bulbocodium, and Merendera)			Africa, Asia, Mediterranean			colchicine	ornamental
Liliales	Colchicaceae	fairy bells	Disporum			Asia
Liliales	Colchicaceae	flame lily, fire lily, gloriosa lily, glory lily, superb lily, climbing lily, and creeping lily	Gloriosa (including Littonia)			Africa, Asia			colchicine	ornamental
Liliales	Colchicaceae	Namib lily	Hexacyrtis			South Africa				ornamental
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Iphigenia
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Kuntheria			Australia
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Ornithoglossum			Africa				ornamental
Liliales	Colchicaceae	Christmas bells, golden lily of the valley, Chinese lantern lily and Chinese lantern bulb	Sandersonia			Africa
Liliales	Colchicaceae	lilac lily	Schelhammera			Australia
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Tripladenia			Australia
Liliales	Colchicaceae	bellworts, bellflowers or merrybells	Uvularia			North America
Liliales	Colchicaceae	perfoliate bellwort	Uvularia perfoliata			North America
Liliales	Colchicaceae		Wurmbea (including Neodregea and Onixotis)

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Creating Heliotrope Shades

Heliotrope is a color as well as a plant in the borage family. It may also refer to an "old time" effect in the garden using the pink-purple shades that create a calming environment. 'Purple Prince, Purple Flag, Queen of the Night, Purple Dream , Caravalle, Purple Lord, and Dreaming Maid are a few purple cultivars to consider for an antique or Victorian carpet of flowers.

Tulipa 'Angélique 

double flowering, Awarded AGM

Division  11 - Double late (peony flowered) tulip

1959

Tulipa 'Pink Diamond'  single, late flowering tulip 

Tulipa 'Elegant Lady', lily-flowered tulip 

Tulipa 'Mariette, lily-flowered tulip

Tulipa 'White Triumphinator'  lily-flowered, late blooming tulip 

Dramatic and Bright

Cultivars of yellow, orange, and red tulips are warm colors creating bright cheerful accents throughout the garden. World's Favorite, Monsella, Monte Carlo, and Banja Luke are a few of the hundreds of choices.

Tulipa 'World's Favorite'  Darwin hybrid, mid-season red-yellow tulip.

Early tulip, '*Monsella is canary-yellow, feathered blood-red, while the inside is sulphur-yellow with blood-red flames.  

Tulipa 'Monte Carlo' is a yellow double flowering early tulip.

Tulipa 'Banja Luke'  Darwin hybrid tulip

Tulipa 'Parade Design, Darwin hybrid tulip 

Tulipa 'Marjolein'  lily-flowered, late blooming, tulip 

Table 1:  Classification of Tulips by Divisions

Division  0I - Single early flowering tulip	Early-season tulips
Division  0I - Single early flowering tulip, Duc van Tol	Early-season tulips
Division  2 - Double early tulip	Early-season tulips
Division 12 - Kaufmanniana	Early-season tulips
Division 13 - Fosteriana	Early-season tulips
Division 14 - Greigii tulip (Tulipa Greigii)	Early-season tulips
Division  3 - Triumph tulip	Mid-season tulips
Division  3 - Triumph tulip, Mendel	Mid-season tulips
Division  4 - Darwin Hybrid Tulip	Mid-season tulips
Division 10 - Parrot tulips	Mid-season tulips
Division  5 - Single late tulip	Late-season tulips
Division  5 - Single late tulip, Breeder	Late-season tulips
Division  5 - Single late tulip, Darwin	Late-season tulips
Division  6 - Lily-flowered tulip	Late-season tulips
Division  7 - Fringed	Late-season tulips
Division  8 - Viridiflora	Late-season tulips
Division  9 - Rembrandt Group	Late-season tulips
Division 11 - Double late (peony flowered) tulip	Late-season tulips
Division 15 - Species

Tulip cultivars|intentional design orange and purple 1949

	Explore Further:  Sources and Research
	Brent and Becky’s, brentandbeckysbulbs.com.
	Bulb Museum in Limmen, Holland
	Colorblends (Schipper and Co. USA)
	Hortus Bulborum
	Hortus Tulipus
	Keukenhof Gardens, Amsterdam
	McClure and; Zimmerman, mzbulb.com.
	Old House Gardens, oldhousegardens.com.
	Peter Nyssen
	The Tulip Gallery
	Tulipmania
	Van Engelen, vanengelen.com.

YEAR	NAME	COLOUR(S)	HEIGHT				HERITAGE BULBS	Mt. Vernon	Monticello	BLOOM
INTRODUCED	Peter Nyssen Ltd 124 Flixton Road, Urmston, Manchester, M41 5BG						AWARDS			TIME
			in	in	cm	cm
1595	Duc van Tol Red and Yellow	Red / red & gold	6	6	15	15	Heritage	X		early
1597	Florentine, woodland, sylvestris	yellow	8	12	20	30	Heritage approved		X	H-mid
1597	sylvestris / Florentine/woodland Species Tulipa	yellow	8	12	20	30	Heritage approved		X
1607	Lady	Purple / rose & white	10	14	25	36	Heritage	X		H-mid
1620	Lac van Rijn (Tulipa kurdica ‘'Lac van Rijn'’)	Red / red-purple & ivory	14	14	36	36	Heritage			early

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