Lost label AGAIN!

[robg]

This is something that has been brewing in a tucked-away-pot for a few years and I've been having to wait till it flowered hoping that I might be able to ID it - but I really have no idea.

Can someone help please.

Many thanks

Rob

 

[Helen Johnstone]

It has the look of a camassia about the flower - maybe the same family?

[Brian Ellis]

I don't think it is Ornithogalum pyrenacium but it might be Anthrisum ramosum?

[Maggi Young]

I don't think it is Ornithogalum pyrenacium but it might be Anthrisum ramosum?

   or Anthericum ramosum..........

[Brian Ellis]

Of course you are right Maggi, why on earth did I write Anthrisum???

[Oron Peri]

Brian, it is Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
 This greenish/white  petals appear in two species in the Mediterranean: O. pyrenaicum and O. creticum.

Anthericum ramosum has milky white flowers  and usually a branched flowering stem.

[Maggi Young]

Of course you are right Maggi, why on earth did I write Anthrisum???

Sunstroke?

[Lesley Cox]

Anthony sent me some seed of Ornithogalum pyrenaicum. It's germinating now. So that's what I can expect?

[Brian Ellis]

Sunstroke?

Quite likely

[TheOnionMan]

Oron, I'm glad you confirmed it, I grow both the Anthericum and the Ornithogalum, and I was going to pipe in and say Anthericum ramosum, I have dozens of plants in flower right now, my O. pyrenaicum is long done blooming.

Just practicing my emoticons, we don't have them on new NARGS Forum, 

[robg]

Many thanks Oron.

That is another plant to add to the mystery of where plants come from let alone what they are.  I like to think that my seed planting lists going back 10 years or so are a reliable indicator of what I have succeeded in germinating, and there are no Ornithogalums. 

The other mystery this year was where a stunning palest pink double paeony lactiflora came from.  It was just another paeony that hadn't flowered until this year, and it's been a real bonus from somewhere !!

Cheers
Rob