Re: "chicken bone" tuber

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• Subject: Re: [SG] "chicken bone" tuber
• From: D* R*
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:58:01 -0700
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The strange chicken bone tuber may be an Erythronium ('Trout Lily', 'Dog
tooth Violet' ) of some kind.

Diana

>
>
>I was transplanting some hepatica and a fern from a friend's garden, and
when I
>got home, found this strange tuber, white, about four inches long, slender
except
>for a slightly swollen lump on one end and a smaller one on the other. I
don't
>remember what my friend had growing in this place before---she died
several years
>ago and the garden hasn't been really cared for or even watered adequately
>since---I think it may be an anemone? Any other suggestions?
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