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What do you think these are? ID help please. Hard white tuber-type-things

FireFire Posts: 19,096
in Fruit & veg
These were unearthed in a friend's garden last week - hundreds of them - all this size, no roots. Hard, like tiny turnips. Any ideas?

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Bluebells ??
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ooo, could be. Interesting.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They look a bit like peeled crocus to me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    I thought same as punkdoc. It would be unusual to find so many crocus bulbs without some having their outside skin.
    As to interesting depends,  if they  are  bluebells,  are they Spanish or English?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    'would be unusual to find so many crocus bulbs without some having their outside skin.'
    True.
    My bluebells are Spanish. They are more elongated, whiter and shinier often with purplish tops. Unfortunately I have no English. So that might be the difference.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Is there any way of telling, if they are bluebells, whether English or Spanish before they flower? Spanish ones are a plague and I would burn the lot.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well the Spanish ones I'm forever gigging up look more like turnips that yours and as i said, much shinier
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    edited August 2020
    They don't look like bluebells to me, my bluebell bulbs look more like mini ddaffodils without paper. 

    Or maybe that's because every time I accidentally dig up a bulb it really is a daffodil, and I've simply forgotten what I planted where  :/

    I'd agree with crocus minus paper.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Perhaps you should just bung them in a pot of compost and see what happens... then decide if you want to keep them or throw them away, when/if they flower?
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm going over to the garden tomorrow and will fork through and dig them out. Fingers crossed they are crocus.
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