Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Autumn Crocus

Autumn Crocus is an herbaceous bulb plant, which blooms colorful flowers during fall. It is mostly in North Africa and Europe. Meadow saffron is another name for Autumn crocus. It is from lily family. It is mainly a perennial ornamental garden plant. During fall, Purplish flowers blooms when it sheds all the leaves. Autumn Crocus is famous by names Colchicum Autumnale and Naked Lady also. Autumn Crocus is the famous species amongst the Colchicaceae family. The flowers resembles crocus, which has goblet shape and hence got the name Autumn Crocus. Autumn Crocus is called naked lady as it blooms without leaves. Some of the colors of the autumn crocus flowers are yellow, pink, purple as well as white.

Autumn Crocus has medicinal properties. It can cure arthritis. It is a poisonous plant. During the autumn, they bloom for long. During spring, autumn crocus produces leaves. The flower will have a size of eight inch .It mainly grows in meadows and damp woodlands. It is suitable to decorate your lawn .When all flowers almost stop blooming in autumn it starts blooming. They grow well under shades of trees as well as shrubs. Autumn Crocus also flowers inside buildings and hence it is an option for you as an indoor flowering plant during autumn.

Most Autumn Crocus plant will have around six flowers with mostly yellow anthers .Six tepals join together to form a tube and giving stunning look for the flowers. The flowers of Autumn Crocus are green and shiny .It grows up to a size of fifteen centimeters. Autumn Crocus is a good floral gift to present during autumn. Its flowers are tubular in looks. Many floral companies offer ready to serve Autumn Crocus flower arrangements as gifts. More over since, it is predominantly a garden plant, they also offer seeds as well as saplings of Autumn Crocus. Since it is having significance in medical field for some medicines, you can look forward for mass cultivation of Autumn Crocus in gardens.

Autumn Crocus has long green leaves of slender type and hence sometimes mistaken for wild onions. Once they were used in mysteries of Eleusinian, and hence got the name Mysteria. Some hybrid varieties of autumn Crocus have caught the eyes of the flower lovers. Autumn Queen is one such with deep violet flowers. The giant also a hybrid has more of pinkish-mauve blooms over a base of white. Violet queen is another hybrid of Autumn Crocus.
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