Description
(syn. Leopoldia pinardii)
This rare tassel species has dainty tufts of sterile violet-blue flowers above the chamois-grey fertile blooms. Perhaps an unlikely synonym of comosa, but the naming in Leopoldia/Muscari is very much “in flux”, with the validity of Leopoldia as a genus being dubious (the most recent studies refute the validity of Leopoldia and do not recognise it a a distinct genus suggesting instead that it falls within the wide variation of Muscari).
Easy in a well-drained sunny spot in a good loam and this is never a nuisance as it seldom makes offsets!
This stock is traceable to, and propagated from, one of the original finds of Walter Siehe who discovered it near Mersin in the Cilician Taurus of Turkey in 1925 and subsequently sent bulbs to the Hoog brothers of the original van Tubergen company in the Netherlands.
