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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: SJW on September 03, 2014, 04:08:34 PM

Title: Bulb ID
Post by: SJW on September 03, 2014, 04:08:34 PM

A friend gave me this lost-label bulb although he thought it may a Sternbergia...
Is one of the rain lilies a more likely match? Started flowering this week.

Grateful for any thoughts.

Title: Re: Bulb ID
Post by: David Nicholson on September 03, 2014, 08:03:07 PM

I would say Habranthus tubispathus Steve.

Title: Re: Bulb ID
Post by: Lesley Cox on September 03, 2014, 09:05:14 PM

I agree. It used to be called Habranthus andersonii.

Title: Re: Bulb ID
Post by: SJW on September 03, 2014, 10:19:36 PM

David, Lesley - thanks, another mystery solved!

Title: Re: Bulb ID
Post by: Lesley Cox on September 03, 2014, 11:22:09 PM

Well that's good.,  Life, I find, is full of such little mysteries. I have many many pots with unknown daffs, crocuses, and countless other small bulbs which will have a name applied as they flower, I hope. Frits are not so bad as each is reasonably distinct while I can cope with most irises but everything else.......Thank goodness for the Forumists! :D