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Cultivation: Probably best in bulb frame or alpine house,
in rich peaty soil
Botanical
Description:
Bulb: 2cm diameter
Stem: 4 - 35cm
Leaves: 6 - 7 shiny green, ovate to lanceolate, alternate
Flowers: Solitary, very broadly bell-shaped, outside dark
red-purple, tessellated, inside green-yellow with red-purple tessellation
Segments: 1.5 - 2cm long, outer 1 - 1.5cm wide, inner 1.5
- 2cm, with rounded, incurved apex
Nectaries: Conspicuous, narrowly ovate, 1cm above base of
perianth
Style: 10 - 15mm, triffid, lobes 2 - 5mm
Capsule: Not winged
Flowering time: V - VII
Habitat: Alpine meadows, stony hillsides by late snow patches,
1800 - 3000m
Distribution: NE Turkey and Caucasus
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