mystery Scilla on the wiki
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:36:01 PDT)

Dear Brian,

I looked up the post from Julian Slade about the proposed name changes for
Scilla (December 17 2003) and in the section based mainly in the
Mediterranean area he mentioned this new genus:

"Autonoe: such as A. haemorrhoidalis, A. madeirensis, etc. Large plants,
distinct in having orange to purple, fleshy fruits and unique in the
Hyacinthaceae in not producing nectar. Seeds quite large."

Looking it up in IPNI I find:
Hyacinthaceae Scilla madeirensis Menezes
in Broteria, Ser. Bot. 1926, xxii. 24; et in Broteria, Ser. Bot. 1927,
xxiii.76.

Perhaps searching with that spelling you might get more hits. Interesting
that they misspelled it on a page for a garden in Madeira. Would you like
me to rename your pictures so we can add them to the wiki Scilla page? I
suppose we'll need to add a page for Autonoe as a cross reference too. Too
bad Autonoe is at the beginning of the alphabet. It's a very handsome plant
I think. When did you take the pictures? The url indicates it is a fall
bloomer.

Does anyone in our group grow this Scilla?

Mary Sue

At 01:13 AM 10/16/04 +0100, you wrote: