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Title: Help on Identification
Post by: art600 on January 27, 2009, 01:02:42 AM

Can anybody offer a suggestion for this bulb.  Have had it 3 years and it has not flowered.

Leaves are quite distinct so I am hoping for an identification.

Thanks

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 02:19:13 AM

I can't help Arthur but what beautiful foliage. I hope someone comes up with the answer. Silly to suggest an obscure Muscari I suppose?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: tonyg on January 27, 2009, 12:24:35 PM

Give us another clue Arthur!  What kind of bulb/corm/tuber/storage roots?  Vaguely suggestive of onion family or asphodels with leaves much broader at the base.  Nice leaves though.

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Oron Peri on January 27, 2009, 12:34:00 PM

Arthur,
Can I suggest Muscari/Leopoldia group....
Does it ring a bell?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: art600 on January 27, 2009, 02:34:51 PM

No bells ringing.  :(

Maggi
Has Ian seen this?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: ashley on January 27, 2009, 03:06:32 PM

An Asphodeline sp. perhaps?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Hans J on January 27, 2009, 03:11:35 PM

...Ornithogalum ?

which form of bulbs ?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Maggi Young on January 27, 2009, 03:41:26 PM

Quote from: art600 on January 27, 2009, 02:34:51 PM

No bells ringing.  :(

Maggi
Has Ian seen this?

yes, just now....consensus here is an Ornithogalum....though no idea which! Sorry! :-[

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: art600 on January 27, 2009, 03:51:25 PM

Thanks everyone - let us hope it flowers this year to confirm Ornithogalum, and then we can have fun trying to guess which one.  :)

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 08:20:29 PM

Maybe Janis will know?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Anthony Darby on January 27, 2009, 08:49:31 PM

Tulip?

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: art600 on January 27, 2009, 10:08:20 PM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 08:20:29 PM

Maybe Janis will know?

I hope he is OK, we have not heard from him for days.

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 11:32:10 PM

Perhaps he's gone into a hibernating mode. :-\

Title: Re: Help on Identification
Post by: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 11:34:21 PM

I see you've passed the 1000 mark Arthur. Congratulations. Deserves a cake but I'm so busy at present, bottling apricots yesterday, sieving sand today. Maybe later in the day.