Muscari ... and some relatives 2009

[Yuri Pirogov]

The photo above shows that greecian Hyacinthella leucophaea ssp. atchleyi looks totally different with long pedicels and without bracts

[mark smyth]

Does anyone grow or know this tiny ?Muscari? That's my thumbnail for comparison. From top to bottom of my thumb as photographed is 2cm

[Oron Peri]

Mark,
It looks like Muscari coeleste, in order to give the corect name you should take a photo of the open flower and leaves.

[mark smyth]

Oron, ask and you receive. The plants are flowering now

[Oron Peri]

Yes Mark,
I stick to M. coeleste...and what beautiful clump

[mark smyth]

I begged and was turned down

[Carlo]

REALLY nice Mark...the plants must be all of what, 10cm?

[mark smyth]

Yes about that or smaller.

Thanks for the quick ID

[Maggi Young]

Yes Mark,
...and what beautiful clump

I'm not so sure ...... look at the damaged leaves to the lefthand side and through the others..... STRIPES!!  I'm thinking virus..... now I know  you'll say I'm always thinking that.... but a lot of the time I'm right......

[mark smyth]

unfortunately yes

[Maggi Young]

What a pity, they're a sweet little thing. 

[Oron Peri]

This is not Muscari, this is rather Hyacinthella from northern Greece. Could anyone identify?

Yuri, I wonder if you have another photo of this species?

At first look, i would say the same as Alberto, H. leucophaea, but some thing is wrong in the structure.
These bracts and form of flower, and lack of the pedical [as you have well noticed] make me think that or it is some kind of a genetic defect or a completely different species. [ it looks similar to H. siirtensis, but this one grows in E. turkey...]

[ashley]

I begged and was turned down

Better to ask for a few seeds Mark

[mark smyth]

Or to ask who has it? Anyone grow this little beauty?

[Ezeiza]

Absolutely yes, Maggi. It is unfortunate that so much of the commercial stock of many bulbs is infected. The problem is seed of them all is seldom offered.