[pbs] Ornithogalum reverchonii
Jane McGary
janemcgary at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 10 13:56:42 EDT 2008
Jim wrote,
>In the summer of 2005 Jane McGary sent me a bulb of Ornithogalum
>reverchonii. ... Yesterday I took a look, and there is a big inflorescence
>on the way up! Photos suggest that this is among the most if not the very
>most elegant of the Ornithogalum - Yippee!
This species, which is endangered in the wild owing to habitat loss, is a
large plant with long, lax foliage, and the flowers are not as showy as one
would hope after seeing the photos (Jim probably means the close-up in the
Rix and Phillips "Bulbs" manual). Nevertheless, the flowers are unusual in
form.
I actually prefer the Ornithogalum species that flower right on the ground,
stemless or nearly so. O. fimbriatum and O. lanceolatum are particularly
pleasing, but they increase so slowly that I haven't tried them in the open
garden yet.
Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon, USA
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