MUSCARI Mill. - GRAPE HYACINTH
Scientific Description:
Bulb with or without offsets. Leaves basal, 1−6(−8), linear to strap-shaped, flat to canaliculate. Scapes bearing racemes, pedicels longer to much shorter than flowers. Bracts minute, membranous. Perianth concolorous to discolorous, blue, violet, yellow, greenish or blackish, Subsessile to long-pedicelled, globose, urceolate, or tubular and slightly asymmetrical, constricted at mouth or unconstricted, sometimes campanulate or rarely obconical, without or with 6 dark bluish fasciae; terminal lobes (teeth) much shorter than tube, porrect or recurved; perianth deciduous at base, pushed off by enlarging capsule. Stamen filaments inserted at, above or below middle of tube; anthers not extending beyond top of perianth tube. Sterile flowers (if present) borne above fertile ones, the same colour as the latter or manifestly different, usually closed. Capsule acutely trigonous, valves somewhat compressed to much flattened, sometimes wing-like, dehiscent on fruiting axis or sometimes, when pedicels very short, shed with the seeds inside. Seeds black and shiny, globose, ovoid or pyriform, not carunculate.
Reference:
Davis PH & Stuart DC (1984). Muscari Miller, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 245.
Public Description:
Muscari is a genus of bulbous perennial herbs known as “grape hyacinth”, and is native to the Mediterranean, the eastern Aegean region, Türkiye and Morocco. There are approximately 43 species in the world and 30 species (30 taxa) in Türkiye. The name “Muscari” derives from the Latin word ‘muschos’ or ‘musk’, which refers to the fact that the flower has a strong scent. The bell-shaped flowers in purple, blue, yellow, green, white or blackish colors are arranged in clusters. It is widely grown as indoor and outdoor plant.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscari, Accessed date: 21.02.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.flowers.org.uk/flowers/flowers-names/m-p/muscari/, Accessed date: 21.02.2016.
Anonymous 3 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Asparagaceae/Muscari/, Accessed date: 21.02.2016.
Eker İ (2012). Muscari Mill., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 98–100.
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