Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(16/04/2022) Henfield Road, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (outside house mid-way between New Hall Lane entrance and West Mill Lane entrance). It's an interesting plant: the yellowy-green things are "bubils" from which emerge the flowers. The white papery things are the sheaths that enclose the developing bubils - a new one at the top and some sheaths have gone revealing the bubils. When the sheath opens, a stalk comes out of it and atop which sits a soliitary flower, see later.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. An here is a flower emerging from the sheath.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. Very distinctive as a "messy-looking" garlic/snow in summer.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. A bubil having produced a flower stalk, sheaths now dying away. The actual flower is the thing at the back.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. You can make out the developing bubils at the bottom inside the papery sheaths. A flower has developed from one of them - the white thing bulging its way out at the top of the sheath.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. Here is the one where the papery sheath is starting to open which will reveal the bubils and flowers, the one on the right is still closed, bubils not full developed yet.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. Sheath opening - the green flower stalk visible emerging from one of the yellowy bubil (the flower head is not visible as the stem has curled right over so the flower is the other side).
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(16/04/2022) Henfield Road, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (outside house mid-way between New Hall Lane entrance and West Mill Lane entrance). These are the bubils from which the flowers will emerge.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(16/04/2022) Henfield Road, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (outside house mid-way between New Hall Lane entrance and West Mill Lane entrance). Flower emerging from a bubil.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. Classic snowdrop-like flower. The whole plant has very few flowers compared to its masses of leaves, hence "few-flowered" in the common name.
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(16/04/2022) Henfield Road, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (outside house mid-way between New Hall Lane entrance and West Mill Lane entrance).
Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum)(02/04/2022) Henfield Road leading towards West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. The leaves are strongly keeled (the big line is actually a kind of pleat - the leaves if you were to look end on would be v-shaped.
