Description
(Fessia)
A new species of Scilla, recently described as a Fessia. The original description is in The International Rock Gardener for 2019.
Our stock derives from a botanical garden accession itself from type locality and it is in fact is the same plant illustrated as a ‘Scilla sp’. Fig. 161 in Bulbous Plants of Turkey & Iran by Peter Sheasby as far back as 2007 (also from this same locality).
It hails from broad-leaves deciduous forests in Golestan province in the eastern section of the Alborz mountain range of n.e. Iran and it grows there at 1900m to 2200m and as might be speculated expected from such a high altitude plant, this seems both hardy and a vigorous grower in norther European gardens. In appearance you might liken it to other, more well-known, members of the Fessia grouping, such as greilhuberi and hohenackeri, though it has a more lax and drawn-out wiry spike carrying the paler, more sky-blue flowers. There are several spikes to each bulb incidentally.
Not difficult
Introduced to our lists October 2021.