[pbs] strange bulb
Laura & Dave
toadlily at olywa.net
Tue May 30 02:03:06 EDT 2006
Dennis Kramb wrote:
> It's white, teardrop shopped, and about 1cm diameter at the
> fattest part. It was also completely dormant... no green foliage and
> few roots. Now I know there's no way to guess what it is from that
> feeble description, ...
But of course we can guess!! Mine is that it is a variety of bulb
grass, based solely on the fact that while rescuing Erythronium oregonum
bulbs, I encountered several "hitchhikers" exactly as you described.
They reminded me of pearls, popping out of the soil to display their luster.
Dave Brastow
Tumwater, Washington (USA) 7A
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