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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Yann on January 27, 2019, 07:41:17 PM
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Here's the first of the season, Ornithogalum nanum
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A close-up image of Ornithogalum nanum.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7910/31991260247_69ace1b2bf_o_d.jpg)
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Ornithogalum ponticum survived the gails, those ones were sown in 2013, first year flowering
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I love these taller Ornithgalums in the garden, this one was acquired as O. ponticum ´Sochi´.
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Flowering now Ornithogalum collinum - or at least that's what we got it as ;D
cheers
fermi
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Flowering now Ornithogalum collinum - or at least that's what we got it as ;D
Two months later another pot of ornithogalum has come into flower - is it also Ornithogalum collinum? ANy suggestions?
cheers
fermi
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The group of Ornithogalum "umbellatum" is quite difficult to identify and the taxonomy is also confused with lots of synonyms and different interpretation of some names in different country ! Flowers are nearly the same in several species and, at least, bulbs need to be digged up to look at bulblets and scales. If you can count chromosomes, it's better :P. If you know where they come from, it's also better.
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The group of Ornithogalum "umbellatum" is quite difficult to identify... If you know where they come from, it's also better.
Hi Yvain,
sadly no provenance on the ornithogalum - it came from a plant exchange but I think it's one that has been passed around among friends. This is the best flowering I've had so far :)
cheers
fermi
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It seems to make big clumps with lots of bulblets. If so, it's probably not collinum but one of the couple divergens/umbellatum. collinum as orthophyllum, kochii, bougreanum and other species/synonym makes no (or very few) bulblet and usually clump slowly with the bulb splitting.