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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Gerdk on December 03, 2009, 06:07:58 PM
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I received the attached pics from a friend who visited Cyprus a week ago.
The plants were seen near Paphos.
I would be glad if anyone is able to identify these small bulbs.
Gerd
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Gerd
maybe a Scilla ?
Hans
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The bulbs remind me of a small hyacinth? So perhaps somewhere in their relations?
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Gerd,
Your bulb looks very much to me like Scilla morrisii, its endemic to Cyprus. I have grown it for several years and it does very well in pots.
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Hans, Paul & Melvyn - Thanks for trying to identificate the plant.
Gerd
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Gerd
I agree with Melvyn and Hans, Scilla morrisii.
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That's truly amazing that you can identify the bulb from a picture without a flower. Hats off to you all. Isn't this site wonderful?
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http://www.hillkeep.ca/images/H.Scilla_morrisii_001-247_20.3.06.jpg (http://www.hillkeep.ca/images/H.Scilla_morrisii_001-247_20.3.06.jpg)
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Nice one! :D
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2949.msg84705#msg84705
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maybe it is not Scilla morrisii but allium cowanii as far as I know grows Scilla morrisii not near Paphos
knowing from only a few locations but the flower will tell us later but if the old bulbskin is crusty it is Allium
Roland
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maybe it is not Scilla morrisii but allium cowanii as far as I know grows Scilla morrisii not near Paphos
knowing from only a few locations but the flower will tell us later but if the old bulbskin is crusty it is Allium
Roland
Looks like an Allium to me too...possibly A. neapolitanum or one of several allied "Molium" Allium species, having ovoid bulbs with membranous to chartaceous bulb coats. But without a flower, it'll be tough to be sure of even the genus.
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At least the mystery plant from Cyprus flowered (opened today) - and turned out to be an Allium - as suggested by some forumists.
I would be glad if someone will tell me what species it is.
Gerd
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Mayby Allium subhirsutum....
Are the leaves with hairs ?
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Not much like a Scilla, then! :-X
I think Roland and McMark have got it right with Allium cowanii syn . neapolitanum. (actually, A. neapolitanum syn. "cowanii" says McMark)
.... those leaves don't look at all hairy to me..... pix I have seen of A. subhirsutum have quite visibly hirsute foliage.
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Not much like a Scilla, then! :-X
I think Roland and McMark have got it right with Allium cowanii syn . neapolitanum (actually, A. neapolitanum syn. "cowanii" - McMark)..... those leaves don't look at all hairy to me..... pix I have seen of A. subhirsutum have quite visibly hirsute foliage.
I confirm my opinion that the "unknown bulb" is Allium neapolitanum (known to occur in Cyprus, a species ubiquetous throughout Mediterranean regions). Note, the name "cowanii" is an invalid name, merely just a form of A. neapolitanum.
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According to Mediteranean Wild Flowers Allium subhirsutum is not found on Cyprus. I had a look at my holiday notes written in 1993 when in Paphos on holiday. Amongst the list of plants seen near the Tomb of the Kings and Paphos lighthouse was the Star of Bethlehem. Later, I discovered the Latin name - Allium neapolitanum. I don't have a picture of it as I eat onions and garlic -not photograph them. My guess is that this is the plant shown by Gerd.
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Thank you alltogether for your kind help in identifying this plant!
Gerhard: no hairs!
There was another suggestion from a friend (than A. neapolitanum) who supposed Allium conmutatum (not commutatum).
What's about this identification?
Gerd