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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Mark on May 23, 2013, 09:02:42 PM

Title: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Mark on May 23, 2013, 09:02:42 PM: Does anyone know what this plant is please.............?????? I got it from a lady up the road, but she doesnt know what it is either.
So, if anyone can help it will be much appreciated.
Thank you
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Gail on May 23, 2013, 09:06:50 PM: Hi Mark,
It is Scilla peruviana, a lovely thing. I was admiring a coffee coloured variant at Kew a couple of years ago which I haven't seen commercially yet but is on my 'I want' list.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Mark on May 23, 2013, 09:54:38 PM: Hi Gail
Thank you very much for that............
Oh i bet the coffee one was gorgeous!!!!!
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: ArnoldT on May 23, 2013, 10:37:07 PM: There's a well known story regarding the naming. It washed off a ship named the Peru hence the name.

Not native to Peru but South Africa.

Not sure if this is urban plant legend or fact.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Mark on May 23, 2013, 10:47:30 PM: It actually was brought into the city of Bristol off a ship named Peru that was from Spain............ I believe its a Mediterranean plant.

Prob urban plant legend............. lol
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Maggi Young on May 23, 2013, 10:58:00 PM: Yes Mark, Scilla peruviana is native to Portugal, Spain, and the south of Italy.
Nice thing!
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: ArnoldT on May 23, 2013, 11:50:02 PM: oop's.

Too much urban legend there.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: fermi de Sousa on May 24, 2013, 10:01:18 AM: Quote from: ArnoldT on May 23, 2013, 11:50:02 PM
oop's.

Too much urban legend there.
Arnold,
I think you're thinking about the "Guernsey Lily"-Nerine sarniensis - which washed up on the Guernsey shore from a ship from South Africa - at least in the urban myths I've heard!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on May 24, 2013, 10:46:28 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on May 23, 2013, 10:58:00 PM
Yes Mark, Scilla peruviana is native to Portugal, Spain, and the south of Italy.
Nice thing!
North Africa too, I believe. I have one labelled Scilla periviana var. ifnense, which I think comes from Sidi Ifni, a former Spanish enclave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Susan on September 14, 2013, 04:15:37 AM: Hi, can anyone help identify the (hopefully) attached plant. Taken in the quarry garden of Milan Halada on our trip around gardens in the Czech Republic. We had a discussion as to its identity but I have mislaid the book I wrote everything down in.

Thank you,

Susan.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Oron Peri on September 14, 2013, 08:06:53 AM: Susan

It is one of the two Coluteocarpus, probably C. vesicaria
Title: scilla peruviana
Post by: monocotman on September 14, 2013, 07:13:19 PM: Mark,

this species is hardy in favoured spots with plenty of sun.
There are alba forms around as well.

David
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: brianw on September 14, 2013, 10:05:26 PM: I bought a peculiar coloured version last year. Must look out the pot again to see what it was labelled. I guess you might call it coffee coloured, but very weak coffee that had been stirred with a dirty spoon maybe. I recall a hint of another colour in it.
Title: Re: Plant ID needed if you can please
Post by: Susan on September 15, 2013, 08:09:16 AM: Quote
It is one of the two Coluteocarpus, probably C. vesicaria

Thank you Oron, it does look as though that is what it is.

Susan