Thanks Jim for explaining Merwilla plumbea here has a flower-spike from over half a meter Roland https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bpSdBybgLqg/… [image: logo] *Bulborum Botanicum* *mail: bulborum@gmail.com* *Site: http://www.bulborum.com/ *Nursery is closed for the public* * Get a signature like this. <http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing/…> CLICK HERE.<http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing/…> 2012/10/4 Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> > As I recall, the events in question took place about a century and a half > before the time of Linnaeus' best work. > > It was Clusius, not Linnaeus, who traveled to Bristol to get information > about this plant. He was told that it came in a ship named Peru but the > ship itself had come from the Levant. The nane antedates Linnaeus, and > thus modern nomenclature, by about 150 years. > > And is the plant in question actually S. peruviana (Oncostema peruviana) > or is it one of the South African species, such as Merwilla plumbea (Scilla > natalensis)? The foliage, what we can see of it, suggests this plant rather > than S. peruviana. > > Jim McKenney > _______________________________________________ > 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
