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Author Topic: ID needed for this member of lily family  (Read 861 times)

Maggi Young

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ID needed for this member of lily family
« on: January 15, 2015, 01:49:16 PM »
This seems to be in the lily family - looks familiar - but what is it?
It is growing  enthusiastically in a continental garden.



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Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 02:17:05 PM »
Because of the umbel form of the inflorescence, it is definitely not a member of the Liliaceae.  I would guess it's in the  Amaryllidaceae, but I'd need better looks at the insides of the flowers to say more. 

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Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 02:17:33 PM »
Nothoscordum bivalve ?????
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Re: ID needed for this member of lily family
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 02:27:50 PM »
I think you may be on the right track, Herbert, thank  you.

( I was meaning  liliaceae, sensu latu  - we're supposed to do that now, I think?  ::) :-X :-\  )

Herbert asked the same question about a similar plant! http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12341.0 and since the  plant here was also flowering in autumn, I think perhaps Oron's suggestion of  Nothoscordum bivalve var nanum is a good one.   

This link goes to HansJ's pix of  N. bivalve in spring
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5120.msg146464#msg146464

This plant, flowering in November in Texas : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8145.0  was ID's as N. bivalve.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2015, 02:31:21 PM by Maggi Young »
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