{"id":1355261,"date":"2013-06-02T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T10:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:06:57","slug":"hyacinthus-orientalis","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/hyacinthus-orientalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyacinthus orientalis (Cultivated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hyacinthus<\/i> orientalis<\/i> L.<\/span><\/a>, Sp. Pl. 317 1753<\/i>.;<\/div>\n
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Hyacinthus orientalis<\/i> (common hyacinth<\/b>, garden hyacinth<\/b> or Dutch hyacinth<\/b>), is a herbaceous<\/span><\/a> perennial<\/span><\/a> flowering plant<\/span><\/a>, native<\/span><\/a> to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century. It is widely cultivated everywhere in the <\/span>temperate<\/span><\/a> world <\/span>for its strongly fragrant flowers which appear exceptionally early in the season, and frequently forced to flower at Christmas time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It is a <\/span>bulbous<\/span><\/a> plant, with a 3\u20137\u00a0cm diameter bulb. The <\/span>leaves<\/span><\/a> are strap-shaped, 15\u201335\u00a0cm long and 1\u20133\u00a0cm broad, with a soft, succulent texture, and produced in a basal whorl. The flowering stem is a <\/span>raceme<\/span><\/a>, which grows to 20\u201335\u00a0cm (rarely to 45\u00a0cm) tall, bearing 2\u201350 fragrant purple <\/span>flowers<\/span><\/a> 2\u20133.5\u00a0cm long with a tubular, six-lobed perianth.<\/span><\/div>\n
The reproduction of the plant in cultivation can be done easily by dividing the newly appeared bulbs from the main plant. In the nature, this method is also used by the Hyacinth but the plant has also specific kind of reproduction by seeds.<\/span><\/div>\n
The plant is pollinated by different insects such as <\/span>honey bees<\/span><\/a>. The flowers are very fragrant and attract the insects by rewarding them with nectar.<\/span><\/div>\n
After flowering the ripening of the seed capsules begins. They are fleshy and spherical structures. When the capsules reach maturity, they get dried and split apart on three parts. Every part has two subdivisions and contains different quantity of seeds. The seeds are black grains with one white <\/span>elaiosome<\/span><\/a> which size can vary. As it looks since the seeds have such structure, they are dispersed through <\/span>myrmecochory<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Ants<\/span><\/a> find the seeds and take them into their burrows where they use the <\/span>elaiosome<\/span><\/a> for food. There the seeds can germinate.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Requesting ID of this lily plant – Chicago, Illinois, USA 24052013 : ARK-03<\/a> : Attachments (4). 4 posts by 2 authors.
\nRequesting ID of this lily like plant captured<\/span> in Chicago, Illinois, USA in May 2013.<\/span><\/div>\n
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These looks like hybrids of Hyacinthus<\/i> but not in good shape \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Thank you .. for the lead. Googling indicated Hyacinthus orientalis<\/i>….<\/p>\n

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could they be\u00a0Hyacinthus orientalis ?<\/i><\/p>\n

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Thanks for the reply. Based on the lead provided by … of efi, I too narrowed down on this ID.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Location:\u00a0Eden\u00a0Project, Cornwall, UK<\/span><\/div>\n
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Date: 03 April 2022
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\nHyacinthus orientalis<\/em>.
\nA very poor example.. should look much better.
\nThere are many named cultivars..my pics below show a close planted clump of <\/span>Hyacinthus orientalis<\/em> Carnegie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nJ&K, Srinagar, April 2023 :: Hyacinthus orientalis (?) for confirmation :: ARK2023-021<\/a>: 2 high res. images.<\/p>\n

These flowers were captured at the Tulip garden<\/span> in Srinagar, J&K in April 2023.<\/span><\/div>\n
Guessing them to be Hyacinthus orientalis<\/em>.<\/div>\n
Again, I had seen similar flowers in a Tulip Garden in Holland, Michigan, USA in 2013. Is there any specific reason, they are planted together?<\/div>\n
Requested to please confirm.<\/div>\n
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I guess this is introduced sp. and ID looks good !<\/p>\n

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Yes … Hyacinthus orientalis<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Plant List<\/a> \u00a0GRIN<\/a>\u00a0 Missouribotanicalgarden<\/a>\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0 Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 Floriculture in India<\/a> By Gurcharan Singh Randhawa, Amitabha Mukhopadhyay(1986- details)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hyacinthus orientalis L., Sp. Pl. 317 1753.; , Hyacinthus orientalis (common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth), is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant, native to southwestern Asia, southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century. It is widely cultivated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[7816],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1355261","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-hyacinthus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1355261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1355261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1355261"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1355261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}