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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ArnoldT on March 09, 2012, 10:41:53 PM

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Post by: ArnoldT on March 09, 2012, 10:41:53 PM

This grew up in a pot of Gladiolus.

Not a Gladiolus!

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Post by: bulborum on March 09, 2012, 11:03:30 PM

Triteleia Brodiaea ??

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Post by: Ezeiza on March 09, 2012, 11:49:40 PM

Dichelostemma?

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Post by: bulborum on March 10, 2012, 12:01:00 AM

That was the word I was after Alberto

Just the wrong name in my head

Roland

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Post by: TheOnionMan on March 10, 2012, 01:47:20 AM

It looks like Dichelostemma capitatum:
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/img_query?where-taxon=Dichelostemma+capitatum&where-anno=1
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=dica14

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Post by: ArnoldT on March 10, 2012, 01:55:56 AM

I think that's it as well Mark.

here's the PBS site:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dichelostemma

it was a visitor with a Gladiolus purchase.

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Post by: Maggi Young on March 10, 2012, 02:19:21 PM

Quote from: ArnoldT on March 10, 2012, 01:55:56 AM

I think that's it as well Mark.

here's the PBS site:

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Dichelostemma

it was a visitor with a Gladiolus purchase.

Cute interloper! That blue with a hint of violet is very fetching. ( or is it viloet with a hint of blue?)

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Post by: ArnoldT on March 10, 2012, 08:03:34 PM

Dichelostemma capitatum