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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: robg on July 11, 2013, 12:10:40 PM

Title: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: robg on July 11, 2013, 12:10:40 PM

This is something that has been brewing in a tucked-away-pot for a few years and I've been having to wait till it flowered hoping that I might be able to ID it - but I really have no idea.

Can someone help please.

Many thanks

Rob

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Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Helen Johnstone on July 11, 2013, 12:14:49 PM

It has the look of a camassia about the flower - maybe the same family?

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Brian Ellis on July 11, 2013, 05:02:30 PM

I don't think it is Ornithogalum pyrenacium but it might be Anthrisum ramosum?

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Maggi Young on July 11, 2013, 05:11:44 PM

Quote from: Brian Ellis on July 11, 2013, 05:02:30 PM

I don't think it is Ornithogalum pyrenacium but it might be Anthrisum ramosum?

   or Anthericum ramosum.......... ;)

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Brian Ellis on July 11, 2013, 06:30:33 PM

Of course you are right Maggi, why on earth did I write Anthrisum??? ::) ::)

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Oron Peri on July 11, 2013, 06:38:55 PM

Brian, it is Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
 This greenish/white  petals appear in two species in the Mediterranean: O. pyrenaicum and O. creticum.

Anthericum ramosum has milky white flowers  and usually a branched flowering stem.

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Maggi Young on July 11, 2013, 07:13:01 PM

Quote from: Brian Ellis on July 11, 2013, 06:30:33 PM

Of course you are right Maggi, why on earth did I write Anthrisum??? ::) ::)

Sunstroke?

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 12, 2013, 02:54:33 AM

Anthony sent me some seed of Ornithogalum pyrenaicum. It's germinating now. So that's what I can expect?

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: Brian Ellis on July 12, 2013, 09:50:34 AM

Quote from: Maggi Young on July 11, 2013, 07:13:01 PM

Sunstroke?

Quite likely 8)

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: TheOnionMan on July 12, 2013, 08:24:59 PM

Oron, I'm glad you confirmed it, I grow both the Anthericum and the Ornithogalum, and I was going to pipe in and say Anthericum ramosum, I have dozens of plants in flower right now, my O. pyrenaicum is long done blooming.

Just practicing my emoticons, we don't have them on new NARGS Forum,  >:( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Lost label AGAIN!
Post by: robg on July 13, 2013, 11:14:57 PM

Many thanks Oron.

That is another plant to add to the mystery of where plants come from let alone what they are.  I like to think that my seed planting lists going back 10 years or so are a reliable indicator of what I have succeeded in germinating, and there are no Ornithogalums. 

The other mystery this year was where a stunning palest pink double paeony lactiflora came from.  It was just another paeony that hadn't flowered until this year, and it's been a real bonus from somewhere !!

Cheers
Rob