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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Maggi Young on May 06, 2020, 07:28:34 PM
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We've been contacted with a plea to ID this bulb - only got these two pix at present, though we are promised some more......
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We thought it seemed to be Allium zebdanense but the grower says he doesn't think so, partly because no part has the familiar "onion scent" and the flowers are not in an umbel - he thinks is is some sort of Hyacinthoides ...... opinions, please?
When we see the photos expanded the flowers are not in a typical umbel ........ :-X
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Some more photos .....
can this be a white H. hispanica?
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I've joined so I can follow this.
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Looks a bit like a tall Ornithogallum, perhaps O. reverchonii, from SE Spain. Hmm, maybe the style isn't quite right??
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Rimmer suggested we perhaps compare it to Nothoscordum gracile
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Nothoscordum (https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Nothoscordum) - but I'm not sure that's right either!
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Looks an awful lot like online images of the Hyacinthoides cultivar 'White City'...
https://www.gardenia.net/plant/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city (https://www.gardenia.net/plant/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city)
https://www.dutchgrown.com/products/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city (https://www.dutchgrown.com/products/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city)
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No, I don't think it's Nothoscordum. This has a spathe just like Allium and the unknown bulb doesn't have one. The individual flowers are distributed along the upper part of the stem.
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I think the plant you are asking about is Scilla hyacinthoides - Hyacinthoides hispanica 'Alba'
(https://i.imgur.com/7wqQygF.jpg)
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Here is a picture from my garden.