Allium photos on the wiki + Eremurus
Jane McGary (Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:02:13 PDT)

Thanks to Mark for posting a photo of Allium hookeri var. muliense, and
saving me the trouble of photographing it so I could ask him what it is.

I recently bought this plant from Collectors Nursery in Battle Ground,
Washington. I believe they have a good supply of them. They have a website
through which plants can be ordered. Their plants are grown from seed that
proprietor Diana Reeck collected in China.

Jane McGary
Northwestern ORegon, USA

At 09:45 PM 7/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:

Hi folks,

I posted 3 photos of Allium hookeri var. muliense, an unusual species from
China, inhabiting forest margins and moist meadows in Sichuan and Yunnan
provinces, at 2800 - 4200 m elevation. The species in unique in having up
to 8-9
leaves in fine condition at flowering, the plant looking more like a
hemerocallis
than an allium, until the ball of bright yellow flowers appear in June and
early July. The flower stem is approximately 2'-4" tall (70 cm). This
species
grows from thick fleshy roots attached to narrow cylindric bulbs.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…