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Bluebell (white morph)

Hyacinthoides non scripta

Description:

rare white form of an English bluebell that lacks the blue pigment, only occurs in 1 in 10,000 bulbs. the introduced spanish version in white form is more commonly found but these are English bluebells.

Habitat:

seen in ancient woodlands in Rotherham

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3 Comments

Debbie Stewart
Debbie Stewart 10 years ago

Hi hg williams3 thanks for the compliment but it looks like yours are actually the spanish bluebells hyacinthoides hispanica which are commonly found in gardens and can be white or pink, these ones are not cultivated to be a different colour though and just lack the blue pigment but were white although as they were in the shadow of the forest probably look darker. True white English bluebells are only found in ancient woodlands the spanish ones were introduced and cultivated around 200 years ago :-)

hg_williams3
hg_williams3 10 years ago

actually this the pink morph the whites are pure white, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/238...
beautiful spotting by the way love these

victoria.vikspics
victoria.vikspics 10 years ago

I love these white ones, my parents have some in their garden, we were hoping they would be in bloom in time for our wedding but due the cold weather they weren't! Will have to see if they are in bloom when I head over tomorrow

Debbie Stewart
Spotted by
Debbie Stewart

Rotherham, England, United Kingdom

Spotted on May 11, 2013
Submitted on May 14, 2013

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