Ornithogalum spp

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Ornithogalum spp

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I found this low growing plant flowering in 1-4 april. I dont think it is the common Ornithogalum narbonense as it has a somehow different inflorescence (less flowers and more lax) and shorter plant.

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I think as Wolf puts it 'You hit Jackpot!' :D
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sorry.....come again Pine ?

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Post by robcar »

Check out this plant properly - O. narbonense normally has yellow anthers

- This is probably something else - If it is what I think it is, it could be a whopping find indeed :!:
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The nearest I could get is O. umbellatum. The fact that anthers are not yet yellow maybe because they have not dehisced.


http://www.meditflora.com/flora/ornithogalum.htm

Another similar one is O. comosum

It would be great satisfaction if I enter the book of rediscoverd flora ! The exif (bluemark) of the photo is 3rd April.
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Could be that the anthers have not yet dehisced but I don't know. I don't think that O.comosum has ever been recorded locally, so presumably that is out.

Look it up O.divergens at

http://www.pharmakobotanik.de/systemati ... 041135.jpg

http://www.pharmakobotanik.de/systemati ... 041140.jpg

(google images also gives these give the pics from this site) these look very, very, very similar to your photos, although of course i am not 100% sure whether the photos i have put the links to have been correctly identified.

- O.divergens is listed as possibly extinct in the red data book, although since this dates back to 1989 i don't know whether it has reappeared since then - i guess that since it might at a glance be mistaken for the rather common O. narborense, there might still be a possibility that it could still be around somewhere.

- Let's see what jack has to say about all this
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It looks so simalar that I think it is the one you suggest Robcar - O. divergens. Great I will make a profile for it!
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Prosit! For me it is Ornithogalum divergens. Seems that it has not disappeared after all.

If we continue like this as a group, I'm sure we will discover more of these previously thought extinct species.
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Congratulation to my Maltese friends- good job (I have never seen this O. in Malta)!
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