Unkown bulb - ID needed, please

[Maggi Young]

We've  been contacted with  a  plea  to ID  this  bulb -  only  got  these  two pix at  present, though we  are  promised  some  more......





We  thought  it  seemed  to be  Allium zebdanense  but  the  grower says he doesn't  think so, partly because  no part has  the  familiar  "onion scent" and the  flowers  are  not  in an umbel -  he  thinks is  is  some  sort  of  Hyacinthoides ...... opinions, please?

When we  see the  photos  expanded  the  flowers  are  not  in a  typical umbel ........ 

[Maggi Young]

Some  more  photos  .....
can this be  a  white  H. hispanica?

[Stephen Hopkins]

I've joined so I can follow this.

[DaveM]

Looks a bit like a tall Ornithogallum, perhaps O. reverchonii, from SE Spain. Hmm, maybe the style isn't quite right??

[Maggi Young]

Rimmer suggested we perhaps compare it to  Nothoscordum gracile

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Nothoscordum    - but  I'm not  sure  that's right  either!

[arisaema]

Looks an awful lot like online images of the Hyacinthoides cultivar 'White City'...

https://www.gardenia.net/plant/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city
https://www.dutchgrown.com/products/hyacinthoides-hispanica-white-city

[DaveM]

No, I don't think it's Nothoscordum. This has a spathe just like Allium and the unknown bulb doesn't have one. The individual flowers are distributed along the upper part of the stem.

[Stefan B.]

I think the plant you are asking about is Scilla hyacinthoides - Hyacinthoides hispanica 'Alba'



Here is a picture from my garden.