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    Communities > Forums > Plant Identification
    Forum: Plant IdentificationReplies: 7, Views: 148
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    dpmichael
    Rethymno, Crete
    Greece (Zone 10b)

    June 24, 2001 12:37 PM

    Post #7105

    These spectacular little flowers grew wild in my land early this Spring. Now I am collecting their seeds - very few, perhaps not enough even for one trade dose. The book (G. Sfikas, Wild Flowers Of Crete) says there are three nigellas in Crete:
    1. N. cretica
    2. N. doerflieri
    3. N. Damascena
    none has white flowers - and what do I have?? the albino multicoloris??

    HELP!!
    Dimitri

    PS You will have your name mentioned when I receive the Nobel for this discovery!!

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    GrannyLois
    Elizabethton (Stoney, TN (Zone 6b)

    June 25, 2001 1:15 PM

    Post #86737

    I have white nigella - don't know the name, tho. Sorry.
    mark
    Antrim, Northern Ire
    United Kingdom (Zone 8b)

    June 25, 2001 4:58 PM

    Post #86811

    dpmichael

    do you grow any snowdrops in your garden? if so which ones? maybe we could trade them.

    Mark
    mark
    Antrim, Northern Ire
    United Kingdom (Zone 8b)

    June 25, 2001 5:01 PM

    Post #86813

    Dimitri

    according to chilterseeds.co.uk N. damascena comes in white
    dpmichael
    Rethymno, Crete
    Greece (Zone 10b)

    June 25, 2001 9:05 PM

    Post #86885

    Mark, what are snowdrops?
    A latin name could help me understand.
    Dimitri
    mark
    Antrim, Northern Ire
    United Kingdom (Zone 8b)

    June 26, 2001 7:39 AM

    Post #87055

    Galanthus. they are spring flowering bulbs which come from around eastern Europe.
    dpmichael
    Rethymno, Crete
    Greece (Zone 10b)

    June 26, 2001 8:14 AM

    Post #87065

    Mark,
    thank you for yor comments and work, very helpful.
    In the afternoon (now it 11:00 am) I will look galanthus up and tell you.

    (there goes my hope for a Nobel!!)

    Dimitri
    dpmichael
    Rethymno, Crete
    Greece (Zone 10b)

    June 26, 2001 9:31 PM

    Post #87331

    No, definitely no snowdrops growing on my land.
    Dimitri

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