Bulbils on the roots?
Diana Chapman (Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:49:51 PDT)
I don't think S. hughii has a muddy blue form. The ones I have are a
brilliant blue. The differences between S. hughii and S. peruviana are as
follows: In S. hughii the leaves are much broader, the bracts below each
floret are much longer and are tinted a bronze color. The bronze color also
tints the stems. I used to grow both, and was able to compare side by side,
and you could see the differences. There are pictures of S. hughii on my
web site, http://www.telosrarebulbs.com/, and I tried to photgraph them to show the
bracts.
Diana
Telos Rare Bulbs
Once, maybe twice, I have grown "Scilla peruviana" from seed exchange
donations, at least one was labelled "Alba", but when it eventually
flowered
turned out to be a dull, muddy, pale grey blue. Could this be "hughii"?
The
closest in colouring from memory, is that of Scilla dimartinoi on the pbs
wiki, though I can't remember if the flower scape differed at all from my
other S. peruviana. The only trouble is yesterday I labelled another pot,
with no root bulbils, as "pale form", which was what I originally called
it
to differentiate it for my own purposes, so maybe this was not this form
but
another that has lost its label over the eons. Now I will have to flower
them both to see if they are different flower forms, and that may take
more
than a year from the smallish sized bulbs. (only 1 has the root bulbils)