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art600

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Help on Identification
« on: January 27, 2009, 01:02:42 AM »
Can anybody offer a suggestion for this bulb.  Have had it 3 years and it has not flowered.

Leaves are quite distinct so I am hoping for an identification.

Thanks
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Arthur Nicholls

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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 02:19:13 AM »
I can't help Arthur but what beautiful foliage. I hope someone comes up with the answer. Silly to suggest an obscure Muscari I suppose?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 12:24:35 PM »
Give us another clue Arthur!  What kind of bulb/corm/tuber/storage roots?  Vaguely suggestive of onion family or asphodels with leaves much broader at the base.  Nice leaves though.
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 12:34:00 PM »
Arthur,
Can I suggest Muscari/Leopoldia group....
Does it ring a bell?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 02:34:51 PM »
No bells ringing.  :(

Maggi
Has Ian seen this?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2009, 03:06:32 PM »
An Asphodeline sp. perhaps?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2009, 03:11:35 PM »
...Ornithogalum ?

which form of bulbs ?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2009, 03:41:26 PM »
Quote from: art600 on January 27, 2009, 02:34:51 PM
No bells ringing.  :(

Maggi
Has Ian seen this?
yes, just now....consensus here is an Ornithogalum....though no idea which! Sorry! :-[
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2009, 03:51:25 PM »
Thanks everyone - let us hope it flowers this year to confirm Ornithogalum, and then we can have fun trying to guess which one.  :)
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2009, 08:20:29 PM »
Maybe Janis will know?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2009, 08:49:31 PM »
Tulip?
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2009, 10:08:20 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on January 27, 2009, 08:20:29 PM
Maybe Janis will know?

I hope he is OK, we have not heard from him for days.
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2009, 11:32:10 PM »
Perhaps he's gone into a hibernating mode. :-\
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Re: Help on Identification
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2009, 11:34:21 PM »
I see you've passed the 1000 mark Arthur. Congratulations. Deserves a cake but I'm so busy at present, bottling apricots yesterday, sieving sand today. Maybe later in the day.
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