Woodland Gem

by Chris Berry

Title

Woodland Gem

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Chris Berry

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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I did a lot of reading to find the earliest and latest blooming plants to have fresh flowers as long as possible in a year. I'd never heard of glory-of-the-snow and purchased a small bag of bulbs.

Chionodoxa luciliae (syn. C. gigantea) or Lucile's Glory-of-the-snow is a bulbous perennial from west Turkey flowering in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. The Latin name is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.
Like all members of the genus Chionodoxa, the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower. In the related genus Scilla, the stamens are not flattened or clustered together. The differences are not considered by some botanists as sufficient to create a separate genus, so they include this species in Scilla.

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April 13th, 2013

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