Colchicum variegatum

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• Colchicum tessellatum Salisb.
• Colchicum tessulatum Mill.
• Colchicum chionense Haw. ex Kunth
• Colchicum parkinsonii Hook.f.
• Colchicum variegatum subsp. parkinsonii (Hook.f.) K.Richt.
• Colchicum variegatum f. decolorans Candargy
• Colchicum variegatum var. desii Pamp.

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Colchicum variegatum is a species of plant native to Greece and Turkey and cultivated in many other places.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358361#page/354/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 342,Colchicum variegatum][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=302981 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Colchicum variegatum]

Colchicum variegatum is a perennial herb forming an underground corm. Tepals are broadly lanceolate, white, mottled with numerous brown or purple markings, sometimes taking the form of spots, other times forming a checkerboard or chessboard pattern.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/472085#page/161/mode/1up Ker Gawler, John Bellenden. 1807. Botanical Magazine 26: t. 1028, Colchicum variegatum]