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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Palustris on June 06, 2015, 04:41:34 PM

Title: Unknown bulb
Post by: Palustris on June 06, 2015, 04:41:34 PM: The backs of the petals have a green stripe down them, though you cannot see it in this picture. Flowering now. A name anyone?
TIA.
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Title: Re: Unknown bulb
Post by: Pauli on June 06, 2015, 05:11:06 PM: Ornithogalum ?
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Post by: art600 on June 06, 2015, 05:13:38 PM: I agree
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Post by: Palustris on June 06, 2015, 06:31:43 PM: Thanks. Now for the interesting bit. The bulbs are actually growing in the roadside verge outside our garden, on the other side of the road. There are more clumps a good fifty yards further down the lane. How did they get there? It must be well over fifty yards to the ones which are growing in the garden and which I cannot ever remember producing seed pods. No other gardens nearby either.
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Post by: Brianm on June 06, 2015, 10:06:39 PM: I beleive this to be Ornithogalum umbellatum which I have growing in the garden. If I coiuld figure out how to do it I would send you a picture I took on 26/5/15 to allow you to compare. However selecting an image only seems to put up a set of braces to insert something. If you send me your e-mail address I will send you a couple of pictures to allow you to check . incidentally I live in Dunoon in Argyll.

Regards

Brian Madden
brian_madden@btinternet.com
Title: Re: Unknown bulb
Post by: johnw on June 06, 2015, 10:16:40 PM: Brian - Don't use the insert image function but simply go below your post and click attachments, then click attach and go from there. Simple as can be after the initial success, make sure the size is right.

john

click my attachment to enlarge.......
Title: Re: Unknown bulb
Post by: Hoy on June 06, 2015, 10:44:35 PM: Here is Ornithogalum umbellatum growing around here.
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Post by: Brianm on June 06, 2015, 11:13:52 PM: Thanks John - I have resized file(second attempt - first was above limit).

Hopefully it is here this time.
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Post by: Palustris on June 07, 2015, 08:23:59 AM: Looks like it, but would love to know how it got into the verge.
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Post by: johnralphcarpenter on June 07, 2015, 01:58:51 PM: It grows wild in the UK. Here it is on Hothfield National Nature Reserve in Kent.
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Post by: JohnnyD on June 08, 2015, 11:40:31 AM: It grows wild in our garden too!!!!!!!!!!!!
JohnnyD
Title: Re: Unknown bulb
Post by: Palustris on June 08, 2015, 01:00:17 PM: Are the seeds spread by ants? That might explain how it got from well inside our garden to across the road. Cyclamen have made that leap as well.