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    What on earth is this flower?

    I have a mystery bulb growing in a patch where I planted out some snowdrops. This one shows up after the snowdrops but looks a bit like them. It seems to have bulbils or seed pods in a papery case below the single flower. Most odd. The leaves do not smell of onion / alliums.
    Anyone know what it is?


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  • #2
    a mutant snowdrop?

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    • #3
      Could they be a Leucojum?
      All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
      Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
        Could they be a Leucojum?
        I wondered that too but they have small green spots on each petal - can't see them on Jeanie's flowers

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        • #5
          No the flowers are all white - dead odd the way the flower pops out of the top.
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          • #6
            Just counted the petals - three outer ones and three inner ones, six yellow stamens.

            Right - I think they are very under-developed Allium Neapolitanum - but I always thought allium foliage smelled onion-y!
            Last edited by Jeanied; 25-03-2012, 05:43 PM.
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            • #7
              I've been seeing them all over the place, I'd love to know what they are.

              I don't think they're Allium Neapolitanum because each single flower is on its own stalk. AN has multiple flowers on one stalk, I think (I'm happy to be wrong)
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Well, I emailed the photos to the RHS and they came back to me with an answer!

                The bulb is Allium paradoxum, a species of wild garlic. It is native to the Caucasus and western Asia but is frequently naturalized in Britain, where it sometimes becomes a weed.

                It is interesting in that it spreads not only by seeds, which are said to be dispersed by ants, but also by the small greenish bulbils produced among the flowers.
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                • #9
                  That didn't take long did it?

                  I'll be looking out for those- no smell of onion/garlic at all? Gosh.
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                  Location....Normandy France

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                  • #10
                    Curiosity satisfied. What a relief. Thanks Jeanie!
                    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                    • #11
                      Now the question is, do I really want it growing in my front garden?
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