Pregnant Onion (Ornithogalum longibracteatum)

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Happenstance Northern California, CA Aug 24, 2003

Common name: Pregnant Onion
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Ornithogalum
Species longibracteatum

Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1792/

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SoCal Huntington Beach, CA(Zone 10a) Aug 24, 2003

I am so glad to see this plant of yours. Someone gave me a baby of this a few years ago and didn't know the name of it. I thought it was in the Allium famly.

Donna

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Happenstance Northern California, CA Aug 24, 2003

Hi Donna -
So glad this helped you out, don't you just love it when one of those "no names" finally gets an ID?

This is a fun plant, it lives in my greenhouse with my succulents. The two flower stalks came out in January (I purchased it at The Ruth Bancroft Garden http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.org sale last October) and it looked like any old onion with the foilage dying down.

Here's a picture from July showing the two stems, one of which I cut off yesterday. Poor thing must be worn out from blooming forever.

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djm906 Mount Prospect, IL(Zone 5a) Aug 25, 2003

So thats what I have! I had it in a hanging planter last year, its leaves hung way down maybe 3-4 feet. I brought it in for the winter, and the silly thing sent out a flower stalk. It had the flowers all along the stalk, grew longer and longer. It was in front of a window, this was in October of last year, it bloomed continuously til I hung it out in May this year. The flower stalk, because it was resting on a table, went back and forth as it grew, and when I put it very carefully outdoors, the tip was starting to die, but the entire flower stalk was easily 10 feet long! Its still outside, no new flowerstalk in sight. I'm almost afraid to bring it indoors again!

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Maudie Harvest, AL Oct 26, 2003

From comments I have read these are very interesting plants. I have not been able to find any anyhwhere. Will someone please tell me where I may obtain them?

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plant_fiend San Jose, CA(Zone 9b) Oct 27, 2003

Maudie, If you have trouble finding them, I can send them to you for postage. These are done blooming for now, but they did send up many flower spikes. The plants seem to be indestructable!

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