By Owdboggy
West Midlands, United Kingdom
A hard one to id.
No-one seems to know what this tiny Allium is called. Leaves are like hair. Pollen is dark brown. Came in a pot of Allium neriniflorum.
No more than 6 inches tall and the flowers are very pale pink with a darker meridian stripe, Half an inch across.
- 17 Aug, 2020
Answers
Does not look right for that and it is not flowering from what looks like a dead set of stems either. Pollen is different colour too.
Told you it was difficult.
17 Aug, 2020
I will see if I can dig a little deeper. I hate not knowing haha.
17 Aug, 2020
I have Emailed the Nursery where the Allium it is growing up through came from originally to see if they know. From their catalogue I cannot actually find any Alliums on sale though.
17 Aug, 2020
Found out through an American poster on another site. This is Allium daghestanicum. I ought to have known as I remember growing it from seed a few years back.
Relief! I hate not knowing things.
18 Aug, 2020
that is brilliant, I have been trawling through lots of allium pictures but had not found it yet. I sent the image to a friend and I am still waiting to hear back from him.
18 Aug, 2020
No images of it in the Allium book, but there are ones on the interweb thingy.
Think I got either a plant or seed from Buried Treasure people, forgotten her name.
19 Aug, 2020
what about A callimischon? though this may be a bit too tall.
17 Aug, 2020