Tom Mitchell <tom@evolution-plants.com> wrote: > I've added a couple of images to the Wiki of an Allium species that I > collected a few years ago in Istria, northern Croatia. >It is > flowering now in cultivation in the UK. It's an easy, very floriferous > species, growing to about 20cm in height and >spreads slowly. I should > have a ton of seed later in the year if anyone is interested and will > send some to Dell for the BX >anyway. Any suggestions as to the > species? > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Tom, your lovely allium is A. incensiodorum, a species endemic to Croatia described in 1989 by Jure Radić. There were a number of studies on the closely related group of rhizomatous Allium in Europe and Asia over the last 20 years, the most important being: "Taxonomy, chorology and evolution of Allium lusitanicum - the European "A. senescens", by Nikolai Friesen & N. Herrmann, 1998. Basically, this publication demarks the difference between what is regarded as true A. senescens (a species purely of Asia), and the European counterparts (previously A. senescens ssp. montanum, moved to a reinstated older name of A. lusitanicum), and further delimitation as other species. Some links: Allium incensiodorum published by Jure Radić in 1989, endemic to Croatia, fine photo... watch the URL, it may word-wrap. http://biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/bogos/Projekte/… "Taxonomy, chorology and evolution of Allium lusitanicum - the European "A. senescens", by Nikolai Friesen & N. Herrmann, 1998. I have an original color copy of this document, sorry that this link is to a very poor quality scanned black & white version: http://biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/bogos/… A number of alliums pictured here, I used Google Translate to translate Danish to English. This is a long URL that'll wrap, copy and paste the whole thing into your browser: http://translate.google.com/translate/… And YES Please, I would dearly love to try some seed of this plant from known provenance, I'll write to you privately about it. Regards, Mark McDonough The Onion man ;-) in Massachusetts, near the New Hampshire border, USDA Zone 5 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/