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September 22, 2007 : Urginea maritima

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Keywords: Hyacinthaceae | Urginea maritima (L.) Baker | Portugal

Urginea maritima

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.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at September 22, 2007 12:00 AM

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Beautiful flower of Portugal. Very fine photograph.

Posted by: Anthony at September 22, 2007 5:29 AM

Today just want to say I really like Rosa's photograph. I am going on the sites mentioned.
Thank you,
Margaret-Rae

Posted by: Margaret-Rae Davis at September 22, 2007 12:49 PM

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.

Posted by: Liz at September 22, 2007 8:57 PM

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

Posted by: David at September 25, 2007 8:03 PM

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