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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: pscholten on January 19, 2016, 07:31:15 PM

Title: unidentified miniature muscari
Post by: pscholten on January 19, 2016, 07:31:15 PM

Hi, i wonder if i could ask for help in identifying this small bulb that flowers in my garden year on year. I think it is a muscari of some sort. thanks,
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3625571/small-bulb-muscari-scilla (http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3625571/small-bulb-muscari-scilla)
Peter

Title: Re: unidentified miniature muscari
Post by: Maggi Young on January 19, 2016, 07:54:32 PM

Hi Peter!  Welcome to the Forum.

These "small blue bulbs" as even the Royal Horticultural Society  trials of these bulbs has called them are often pretty hard to identify.  I think your little charmer is Muscari azureum .... but another  opinion may come along any minute!

Title: Re: unidentified miniature muscari
Post by: mark smyth on January 19, 2016, 08:15:19 PM

This is mine but I haven't seen it in the garden for years

Title: Re: unidentified miniature muscari
Post by: Tristan_He on January 19, 2016, 08:56:43 PM

I agree Maggi, think it looks most like M. azureum. Nice plant, not invasive like some grape hyacinths. I've had a white one for a while, from Janis I think?  The slugs tend to nibble it a bit here.

Tristan

Title: Re: unidentified miniature muscari
Post by: pscholten on January 19, 2016, 09:12:21 PM

Thank you all, azureum it is.