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Autumn timeless and crocuses have a lot in common - but especially the flowering time makes them different
Is the autumnal season a crocus?
With colorful flowery rugs they let the garden year end. Autumn timeless inspire in their heyday from August to October with decorative flowers that do not differ at first glance from crocus flowers. In fact, confusion can be deadly. Why this is so, read here. This is how you recognize a fall time lapse.
Poisonous beauty with crocus-like flowers
The Herbstzeitlose is one of the lily family (Liliales), while the crocus is assigned to the irises (Iridaceae). There is therefore no botanical relationship. The vernacular dubbed the Herbstzeitlose aptly as a poison crocus, as the plant is extremely toxic. In all parts of the highly toxic alkaloid colchicine is included that already in small quantities violent symptoms of poisoning triggers to death. You'll recognize an autumn timeless by these attributes:
When the spring-flowering crocuses in the garden are in scene, the flowers of autumnal timeless ones have long been transformed into small fruit capsules. Likelihood of confusion is therefore predominantly with autumn crocuses, such as the magnificent crocus (Crocus speciosus).