Common name: Snowdrop
Scientific name: Galanthus nivalis 雪花蓮, 雪滴花, 雪花草, 雪滴水仙
Genus: Galanthus 雪滴花屬
Family: Alliaceae 葱科, onion family
Remarks*:
Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD). It is a European Southern-temperate species. It was known in cultivation in 1597 and was recorded in the wild since 1778.
Date: 7th & 9th March
A bulbous perennial, can reach up to 25 cm. A large cluster of snowdrops found on the verge of a woodland.
There are 2 leaves for each individual plant.
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The following photos were taken on another location on 7th March. (whereas the above photos were taken on 9th March.)
Leaves are glaucous, linear and flat.
Flower is solitary, nodding; spathe of 2 fused bracts, deeply divided at tip.
Note the 3 inner tepals are much shorter and blunter than outer in Galanthus 雪滴花屬. (vs all tepals are similar in Leucojum 雪片蓮屬.)
Inner tepals emarginate, with green patch near incision.
Flowers white, up to 40 mm across.
Inner tepals with green stripes inside the tepals. 6 yellow stamens and 1 style.
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