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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on March 21, 2020, 11:32:56 AM

Title: Scilla? I think
Post by: shelagh on March 21, 2020, 11:32:56 AM

Since we altered the garden last year several plants were put in pots and this one's label has gone. I think it must be a Scilla, can any one help.

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2020, 12:07:33 PM

Scilla rosenii ?

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: shelagh on March 21, 2020, 01:52:02 PM

It certainly could be Maggi, but I don't remember the name.

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: Jon Evans on March 21, 2020, 02:36:00 PM

To me it looks like Scilla cilicica.  Or possibly one of the species that have now been included in Fessia, greilhuberi and hohenhakeri.  I'm not enough of a botanist to tell these three apart, but they all have the swept back petals and extruded stamens.  One of the three, which came to me as greilhuberi, is now a weed in parts of my garden.  Both S. cilicica and S. greilhuberi are shown in my account of the Loughborough Show.

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2020, 02:48:12 PM

Quote from: Jon Evans on March 21, 2020, 02:36:00 PM

Both S. cilicica and S. greilhuberi are shown in my account of the Loughborough Show.

Thanks  Jon!
 The  link for that  report  is  https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/loughborough-flower-show-2020/ (https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/loughborough-flower-show-2020/)

Now  I  have  a  better  look at Shelagh's  pic I  see the  leaves are  a  bit too  narrow for  S. rosenii.

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2020, 02:53:49 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on March 21, 2020, 02:48:12 PM

Thanks  Jon!
 The  link for that  report  is  https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/loughborough-flower-show-2020/ (https://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/loughborough-flower-show-2020/)

Now  I  have  a  better  look at Shelagh's  pic I  see the  leaves are  a  bit too  narrow for  S. rosenii.

 This  from Yann ....

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Scilla greilhuberi, slowly fading

Title: Re: Scilla? I think
Post by: shelagh on March 21, 2020, 04:18:21 PM

Thanks to John and Yann.