Is the plant widely sold in commerce as Colchicum cilicicum the real thing? Take a look at the images on the site for which a link is given below. They show a much more clearly tessellated flower with a different shape. In fact, the flowers shown on this site are about as tessellated as any colchicum I've seen. These photos were taken at Kew. Look here: http://colchicaceae.e-monocot.org/taxonomy/term/… If anyone knows of a source for these plants, please speak up! Jim McKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where today's high temperature will be about twenty-five degrees cooler than we have experienced recently. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/