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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: orpheos on April 13, 2011, 05:22:22 PM

Title: help for ID
Post by: orpheos on April 13, 2011, 05:22:22 PM

hi to everyone
i've bought this plant as a "nerine spec. N of Kingwilliamstown" last summer without flowers.. now it's starting to bloom but... it isn't a nerine! i think it's an ornithogalum or something like that.. could anyone help me to identify it?
the flowers as you can see in the third photo are very small

Title: Re: help for ID
Post by: mark smyth on April 13, 2011, 05:30:55 PM

Matteo my not very experienced eye says possibly Ornithogallum

Title: Re: help for ID
Post by: jshields on April 13, 2011, 06:19:05 PM

I'm not at all expert on Ornithogalum, so I can't really help you.  It does not look like a Nerine umbel to me; but in any case, much closer pictures would help.  The interior of the flower is what we need to see. 

Jim

Title: Re: help for ID
Post by: orpheos on April 15, 2011, 05:05:57 PM

this is the best i can do with my camera...the flowers are tiny...

Title: Re: help for ID
Post by: Ezeiza on April 15, 2011, 05:29:35 PM

As with South African bulbs, there are more species around than those described in books. Not necessarily one can obtain an ID: very large genus.