''Colchicum macrophyllum'' has large, funnel-shaped flowers in the fall with much tessellation throughout the bloom. The colour is rosy-purple and white. The leaves that it produces in the spring are large, up to 16" (40 cm) long, among the largest of all colchicum species. This plant is native to the area around the Aegean Sea ( Turkey and Greece including Crete).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Colchicum macrophyllum''
/ref>Autumn Bulbs by Roy Leeds (B.T. Batsford Ltd) 2006

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macrophyllum Flora of Turkey Garden plants Plants described in 1951 Flora of Crete Flora of Greece {{liliales-stub