Colchicum boissieri

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Colchicum boissieri GotBot 2015 004.jpg

|genus = Colchicum

|species = boissieri

|authority = Orph.

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|synonyms = *Colchicum pinatziorum Rech.f.

• Colchicum procurrens Baker

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Colchicum boisseri is a plant species in the genus Colchicum (the autumn crocuses) native to southern Greece and south-western Turkey but cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.Theodhoros Georgios Orphanides. 1876. Atti Cong. Bot. Firenze 1874 (1876) 31.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302785 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Colchicum boissieri]Rechinger, Karl Heinz. 1961. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. Leipzig 80:433, Colchicum pinatziorum The species is unique for its spreading, rhizomatous bulbs. It blooms well with 5 cm (2") blooms in a bright cherry pink. The stamens are yellow. The flowers have no tessellations, only a white line down the centre of each petal.Autumn Bulbs by Roy Leeds (B.T. Batsford Ltd) 2006 {{ISBN|0-7134-8962-6}} It is named after botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.