Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – Daniel
Thanks once again to Rosa, aka contemplar@Flickr, for another photograph for BPotD (original | alternate | BPotD Flickr Group Pool). If you visit Rosa's weblog, Blog De Cheiros, you'll find this post with photographs of this species before it blooms.
Sea squill is native to sandy, coastal areas along the Mediterranean (but it is also widely cultivated). It is poisonous, and known to have rodenticidal and anti-insect properties.
The Plants for a Future database reports on the economic uses of this species. More photographs can be seen via the Pacific Bulb Society's Urginea page.
Beautiful flower of Portugal. Very fine photograph.
Today just want to say I really like Rosa's photograph. I am going on the sites mentioned.
Thank you,
Margaret-Rae
Thank you for this beautiful picture. We were just in Portugal and saw this plant and wondered what it was. It was quite abundant, mainly growing under shrubs in the water courses of the Coa Valley where we went to see paleolithic petroglyphs.
Thank you Rosa, I have been to Greece quite a few times in the spring. And have seen masses of these bulbs sticking out of the ground with a few drying leaves. So nice to see the actual flowers
Good morning,
We like the photo of the urginea.
Can we use it for a packaging of flowerbulbs?
Hope to see your reply soonest,
best regards,
Karel Keesman
Karel, you will have to contact contemplar@Flickr. Visit the link to contemplar@Flickr from the text, click on profile, and there is an email address for you to use.
I just found one of these bulbs for sale at my local Lowes. Apparently there is a grower in southern California?
I'm in Phoenix, so it has a chance of not dying here. We'll see.