Which flower
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:17 pm
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?
Is it wild garlic?
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Re: Which flower
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:07 pm
Its Outafocusdei
Re: Which flower
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:15 pm
Looks a bit like a way out of season relative of Agapanthus.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:51 am
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.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:11 am
Maybe it could be a Leucojum of some sort!!!!!
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:31 am
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.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:26 am
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.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:33 am
Will try to pick a fresh flower and leaf tomorrow as about to go out for the day. Current specimen past its best now.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:02 am
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
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:45 am
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.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:54 pm
But how about
Wild Garlic (which it isn't) set me thinking Allium, there may be another species, perhaps a garden escape.
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Wild Garlic (which it isn't) set me thinking Allium, there may be another species, perhaps a garden escape.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:26 pm
It certainly looks very much the same, Geoff.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:37 pm
Thought I'd bump this in case Primrose missed its trip across the sections. Did I solve it?
Re: Which flower
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 5:39 pm
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.
Re: Which flower
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:00 pm
We have a similar one in the garden I think it was transplanted from a local woods we call them whitebells not sure of any Latin name