Portuguese Squill
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Portuguese Squill
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Nature is really interesting. I have never seen this flower before. I did not know it is an ornamental plant. Captured in 2016, February 5. I realized the flower captured has a circular loop feature.
Scilla peruviana, the Portuguese squill, is a species of Scilla native to the western Mediterranean region in Iberia, Italy, and northwest Africa. The bulb is 6 - 8 cm in diameter, white with a covering of brown scales. The leaves are linear, 20 - 60 cm long and 1 - 4 cm broad, with 5 - 15 leaves produced each spring. The flowering stem is 15 - 40 cm tall, bearing a dense pyramidal raceme of 40 - 100 flowers; each flower is blue, 1- 2 cm in diameter, with six tepals. The foliage dies down in summer, re-appearing in the autumn.
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2024 Lingfai Leung
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February 13th, 2024
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