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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Pauli on October 03, 2014, 04:39:47 PM

Title: unknown bulb
Post by: Pauli on October 03, 2014, 04:39:47 PM

I am quite sure, that I did not plant this.

Has anyone an idea what it is? Flowering now and it survived at leat the last two winters (low to about - 14°C)

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Lori S. on October 03, 2014, 04:48:06 PM

Ornithogalum, I'd venture Orntihogalum umbellatum.

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Pauli on October 03, 2014, 06:11:56 PM

Thanks for your suggestion Lori, but O. umbellatum looks distinct and flowers in spring!

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Lori S. on October 03, 2014, 08:10:19 PM

Sorry, missed the "flowering now" part, for one thing!

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Oron Peri on October 05, 2014, 03:10:41 PM

Looks like Nothoscordum bivalve var nanum

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: pehe on October 05, 2014, 04:14:59 PM

I grow Nothoscordum bivalve and it looks similar to Paulis bulb, but it flowers in the spring/summer. Does var. namum flower in autumn?

Poul

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Oron Peri on October 05, 2014, 08:33:24 PM

Yes Poul, occasionally it blooms in October-November as well.
Also, it happens that the new bulbils produced in early spring may flower already in autumn.
re:

http://www.tropicos.org/name/18406182?projectid=23 (http://www.tropicos.org/name/18406182?projectid=23)

Title: Re: unknown bulb
Post by: Pauli on October 06, 2014, 05:51:33 AM

Thanks for your help Oron. I still wonder, how it came into my garden - perhaps as an 'extra' from a seed exchange!