By Queenie
Surrey,
United Kingdom 
Can anyone tell me what sort of plant produces this seed pod? I came back from holiday to find them in my garden..the seeds are brown and sort of triangular...as I can't remember all the stuff I planted last autumn I have no idea what it's called... also will the little seeds germinate if I sow them now?
Many thanks, Queenie
1 Jul, 2013
Answers
i'd go for crocus as I have these in the borders now. yes you can grow them but it'll be 3yrs at least before you get flowers. I leave mine to scatter and see what happens.
2 Jul, 2013
It reminds me of a tulip.
2 Jul, 2013
I,d sow them, I love seeing what I can get to germinate and what they become.
I got my calla lily seeds to grow and this year they are flowering, the two at the moment are a pretty pink, from a cream plant.....fascinating.....
2 Jul, 2013
I might have said a pansy but its too big and does look like a tulip.
Its great to see when they self seed.
And over the yrs I have had many hellebores and I uplifted them and they are now up in walled garden of Glamis Castle.
2 Jul, 2013
Thanks for all your help and comments, it's surely not a crocus or pansy....I remember the flower did look like a small tulip and the leaves are the same, I don't remember buying or planting them...also it's only 22cm long - so surely it's a different species. My other tulips are much bigger and have a sterile seedhead
Looked on RHS for 'small tulip' but no joy.
Thanks again one and all....
2 Jul, 2013
looks very similar my snakes head fritillary, which has the pods just bursting open now
2 Jul, 2013
it will be a species tulip of which there are many. I hadn't noticed the leaf in the top of the picture - oops!
snakes head pods are more rectangular and the seeds are flattish discs.
2 Jul, 2013
I agree with SBG. A specie tulip, definitely not a fritillary
2 Jul, 2013
Looks like a seed head from a spring flowering bulb...possibly a tulip ?
2 Jul, 2013