Colchicum Collection

Crocus and Snowdrops
Colchicum (Crocus) and Galanthus (Snowdrop)

Poisonous Plants
Water Hemlock (Cicuta Virosa); Conium Maculatum; Digitalis Purpurea; Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias); Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla); Autumn Crocus

Autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale
Autumn crocus, meadow saffron or naked ladies, Colchicum autumnale, Linn. Colchique d Automne. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Victor Dupin junior from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Herbier

Daffodil variety, Narcissus poeticus, and meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Meadow saffron or wild saffron, Colchicum autumnale. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Variegated meadow saffron, Colchicum variegatum. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Spring meadow saffron, Colchicum bulbocodium (Bulbocodium vernum). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Colchicum trigynum (Caucasian merendera, Merendera caucasica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hookers Botanical Magazine

Passion fruit or granadilla and meadow saffron
Passion fruit or granadilla, Passiflora ligularis (Clematis passionalis) and meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo

Meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale.. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Chequer-flowered meadow saffron, Colchicum variegatum.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1790-1800

Crocus-flowered meadow-saffron Colchicum crociflorum.. Illustration by Miss C. Curtis (Samuels daughter?), engraved by Weddell

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