Colchicum macrophyllum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image = Colchicum_macrophyllum_-_Rhodes_(1).jpg

| genus = Colchicum

| species = macrophyllum

| authority = B.L.Burtt

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| synonyms = Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum Pamp.

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Colchicum macrophyllum has large, funnel-shaped flowers in the fall with much tessellation throughout the bloom. The colour is rosy-purple and white. The leaves that it produces in the spring are large, up to 16" (40 cm) long, among the largest of all colchicum species.Brian Laurence Burtt. 1951. Kew Bulletin 5(3): 433, Colchicum macrophyllumPampanini, Renato. 1926. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, ser. 2, 33: 24, Colchicum latifolium var. longistylum

This plant is native to the area around the Aegean Sea (Turkey and Greece including Crete).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302892 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Colchicum macrophyllum]Autumn Bulbs by Roy Leeds (B.T. Batsford Ltd) 2006 {{ISBN|0-7134-8962-6}}