Hyacinthus orientalis
Common Name: [Dutch] Hyacinth
Family Name: Asparagaceae
One of my favorite plants, it has an incredibly strong sweet fragrance. The bulbs are HUGE!!! And very toxic as well as purplish. They make people itchy. The foliage is spear-shaped and the plant itself has an obvious stocky condensed shape with waxy star-shaped florets on a fat center stem. The flowers come in purple, blue, red, and peach.
Photo taken March 14, 2012 at Virginia Tech in the Hahn Horticulture Gardens.
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