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Author Topic: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?  (Read 1222 times)

mark smyth

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Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« on: May 01, 2014, 10:50:28 PM »
These were all bought as Muscari pallens but some open pale and in a few days fade to pristine white. Could the white one be anything else? They are short and if necessary I'll go outside with a torch and measure them  :)

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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2014, 11:11:08 PM »
I got some from Augi a couple of years ago and they are in bloom now, and they look very similar Mark.  I'll take a photo tomorrow (weather permitting) and post....
Chris Boulby
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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2014, 11:19:37 PM »
Nice plants Mark, showing what's probably just normal variability within the species. 
Some I've grown from seed hold their pale blue/mauve colour while others fade to almost pure white.
Ashley Allshire, Cork, Ireland

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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2014, 11:30:23 PM »
I got some from Augi a couple of years ago and they are in bloom now, and they look very similar Mark.  I'll take a photo tomorrow (weather permitting) and post....

Augis bulbs?
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mark smyth

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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2014, 11:31:35 PM »
Nice plants Mark, showing what's probably just normal variability within the species. 
Some I've grown from seed hold their pale blue/mauve colour while others fade to almost pure white.

Thanks Ashley. These are my only ones that fade to white. I'll have to move them to a different trough - don't want to give away my white ones  :)
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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2014, 07:35:34 AM »
Here's mine Mark.  Yes, Augi's Bulbs..
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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2014, 09:29:53 AM »
He says flowers white ... what's my blue one?
« Last Edit: May 02, 2014, 09:52:30 AM by mark smyth »
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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2014, 09:33:45 AM »
Comes up like that then fades to White pretty much like yours I think
Chris Boulby
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mark smyth

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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2014, 09:53:18 AM »
sorry I rephrased my reply. What are my blue ones - just variable like Ashley says
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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2014, 09:50:21 PM »
M.pallens in my garden, I got my first ones more than
25 years ago from a Czech collector and noted no
hybridisation with other species during all the years.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
climate zone 8a,elevation 250 m

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Re: Could this be a white Muscari pallens?
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2014, 12:02:53 AM »
So my blues ones are different and for years I thought it was the white ones. I think I'll email Augis
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