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

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If they’re crocus they’re corms and will have the basal plate formed by the previous year’s corm at the base. It will also be solid. 

    A bluebell grows from bulbs made up from layers that you can peel off like an onion. 

    Cutting one of them in half so we can determine the structure will reveal whether it’s a corm or a bulb so we’ll at least know what plants it isnt. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Could they be allium bulbs?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Hasn't your friend seen these growing or has he just moved in?
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    They look very similar to my snakes head fritillary bulbs. 
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Could even be Arum maculatum bulbs.
    As said cut one in half and post a picture of the inside.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    When cut in half it is just like an onion - layers, juicy, no scent. 





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    K67 said:
    Hasn't your friend seen these growing or has he just moved in?

    It's tricky. He is in and out of hospital - it's not really a priority with all that's going on. I will ask him when I next see him.
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    Didn't @Dovefromabove say bluebells are like onions?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There were so many we dug up, that I would say there is a good chance of them being Spanish bluebells, which are everywhere around here. If they are, I would leave them in the ground and cover with weed membrane.
  • valerierobertsvalerieroberts Posts: 726
    I had some bulbs  (if I remember rightly) like those that were a specie tulips. Quite small about 3/4 inch across. Hope they are. Let us know next April please. Valerie 
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