I thought The name of the ship was Peru maybe someone can confirm this Roland 2012/10/4 David Retief <dretief@yahoo.com> > Hi Again, > > Thanks for the trouble - I got an ID in my facebook group: > > Scilla peruviana (which interestingly enough, is not from Peru - the ship > that brought the plant samples to Carolus Linnaeus in 1753 was called the > Peruviana, and he was thus mislead). > > > Kind regards, > David. > > > > ________________________________ > From: David Retief <dretief@yahoo.com> > To: "pbs@lists.ibiblio.org" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:48 PM > Subject: Please help ID this > > > Hi Guys, > > We bought about 9 of these plants from an indigenous plant nursery just > outside Bredasdorp, South Africa. They did not come with a tag and we are > stumped as to what this actually is. > > > http://flickr.com/photos/31896517@N07/… > > > Does anybody recognize this plant, even rough genus? > > Thanks, > David. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com