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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on July 20, 2020, 02:35:41 PM

Title: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 20, 2020, 02:35:41 PM

Small bulb with long foliage and seed all the way up the stem. But what is it? JohnnyD

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: Palustris on July 20, 2020, 02:40:12 PM

Has the look of Brodiaea ixioides Starlight, but my eyesight is not what it was.

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 20, 2020, 05:21:38 PM

Fraid not Eric - too small. J.

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: Carolyn on July 20, 2020, 06:52:27 PM

John,
I have this in the garden - I think it is an annual and it seeds around and reappears now and then. I cannot remember the name. Maybe it was a Bulbine or Bulbinella. I have a feeling that my mother got seeds of it from Chiltern Seeds, many years ago, and I got some from her. I have looked quickly on the Chiltern website but cannot see it. This is going to annoy me now!

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: Palustris on July 20, 2020, 08:21:45 PM

Told you my eyesight was not good. So lets try Gagea!

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: Maggi Young on July 20, 2020, 09:13:46 PM

Bulbine abyssinica ?

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: allanm on July 20, 2020, 09:29:16 PM

Leaves more rounded Bulbine annua (?)

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: Carolyn on July 20, 2020, 10:27:33 PM

That’s the one I grow - Bulbine annua, that name definitely rings a bell. Nice wee plant. I think that’s what you have got, John.

Title: Re: Another 'anonymous' bulb!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 21, 2020, 11:58:39 AM

Thanks Carolyn, that looks absolutely right.
Thanks to all who made suggestions,
JohnnyD