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Originally Posted by Guy F
It does look like a Colchicum from the book. I suppose that it will emerge from the soil more in time?
I'm not sure what the orchid is, there doesn't seem to be anything similar in the Mediterranean wildlife book. When I visited the Spanish mountains the plants flowering periods seemed quite strange. Some plants seemed to be flowering later than in Britain while some seemed to be flowering earlier, I suppose the flowering times there must be affected a lot by the latitude and altitude.
Guy
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What we need is a good botanist. I know that
Colchicum is often sold as "Autumn
Crocus" causing some confusion but it seems from
Fleurs du Roussillon that "
Colchicum" is actually three species. My specimens don't look like the illustrations of
Colchicum autumnale on the web (not shown here). Rather they resemble the
Merendera montana shown on this site?
The other confusing thing is that both groups tend to flower
either in autumn
or in spring - what was this one doing in mid-August? I suppose that, at this moderate altitude, spring might be late or autumn early?
Yes, I saw the same thing as you - blakberry and rowan were still in flower but many 'early summer' plants were in seed ....