Plant ID needed if you can please

[Mark]

Does anyone know what this plant is please............. I got it from a lady up the road, but she doesnt know what it is either.
So, if anyone can help it will be much appreciated.
Thank you

[Gail]

Hi Mark,
It is Scilla peruviana, a lovely thing. I was admiring a coffee coloured variant at Kew a couple of years ago which I haven't seen commercially yet but is on my 'I want' list.

[Mark]

Hi Gail
Thank you very much for that............
Oh i bet the coffee one was gorgeous!!!!!

[ArnoldT]

There's a well known story regarding the naming.  It washed off a ship named the Peru hence the name.

Not native to Peru but South Africa.

Not sure if this is urban plant legend or  fact.

[Mark]

It actually was brought into the city of Bristol off a ship named Peru that was from Spain............ I believe its a Mediterranean plant.

Prob urban plant legend............. lol

[Maggi Young]

Yes Mark, Scilla peruviana is native to Portugal, Spain, and the south of Italy.
Nice thing!

[ArnoldT]

oop's.

Too much urban legend there.

[fermi de Sousa]

oop's.

Too much urban legend there.

Arnold,
I think you're thinking about the "Guernsey Lily"-Nerine sarniensis - which washed up on the Guernsey shore from a ship from South Africa - at least in the urban myths I've heard!
cheers
fermi

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yes Mark, Scilla peruviana is native to Portugal, Spain, and the south of Italy.
Nice thing!

North Africa too, I believe. I have one labelled Scilla periviana var. ifnense, which I think comes from Sidi Ifni, a former Spanish enclave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

[Susan]

Hi, can anyone help identify the (hopefully) attached plant.  Taken in the quarry garden of Milan Halada on our trip around gardens in the Czech Republic.  We had a discussion as to its identity but I have mislaid the book I wrote everything down in.

Thank you,

Susan.

[Oron Peri]

Susan

It is one of the two Coluteocarpus, probably C. vesicaria

[monocotman]

Mark,

this species is hardy in favoured spots with plenty of sun.
There are alba forms around as well.

David

[brianw]

I bought a peculiar coloured version last year. Must look out the pot again to see what it was labelled. I guess you might call it coffee coloured, but very weak coffee that had been stirred with a dirty spoon maybe. I recall a hint of another colour in it.

[Susan]

It is one of the two Coluteocarpus, probably C. vesicaria

Thank you Oron, it does look as though that is what it is.

Susan