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Hyacinthoides non scripta
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.
seen in ancient woodlands in Rotherham
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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 :-)
actually this the pink morph the whites are pure white, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/238...
beautiful spotting by the way love these
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