Can anybody identidy this wild flower for me, found in a footpath. It has pointed leaves rather like a snowdrop but longer, and a brighter green.
Is it wild garlic?
Which flower
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Its Outafocusdei 
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Geoff is right, it does look a bit like an agapanthus.
I was wondering at first if it could be a Spanish bluebell cross, but the flower formation is wrong.
I was wondering at first if it could be a Spanish bluebell cross, but the flower formation is wrong.
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Maybe it could be a Leucojum of some sort!!!!!
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Pa and OH, a WHAT ??
There's a small patch of them in a footpath near our house. There are a few blue bluebells nearby. I wondered it they could be some kind of mutation but the flowers are different.
There's a small patch of them in a footpath near our house. There are a few blue bluebells nearby. I wondered it they could be some kind of mutation but the flowers are different.
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Primrose, please could you do another photo with the flower and a leaf laid on a table with somethng besides them for scale like a ruler or a £1 coin.
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Like the idea of a Leucojum OH. Searching for Leucojum turns up Acis (another renaming?) - some look close but the cup behind the petals looks slightly wrong http://www.cgf.net/plantdetails.aspx?id=2245
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I see what you mean, Geoff and having a second look, i think the stems in Primroses photo, look a little thicker than a (Acis), too.
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It certainly looks very much the same, Geoff.
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Sorry, been on the run. Haven't had time yet to go and collect fresh flower/leaves or try to photo in situ .
Just odd that there is this one single patch of it in the length of the footpath near a cut-though gap in the hedge suggesting that at some time somebody living nearby might just have originally planted a small clump of this that has expanded over time to the point where it is now more noticeable.
Just odd that there is this one single patch of it in the length of the footpath near a cut-though gap in the hedge suggesting that at some time somebody living nearby might just have originally planted a small clump of this that has expanded over time to the point where it is now more noticeable.