English bluebells only come in blue for a start. The other thing to look at is where the individual flowers are on the stem. In English ones all the flowers are on one side only, in Spanish ones the flowers are circled around the stem.
Hi cotty, it appears to me you have all Spanish (or hybridised) bluebells there,with the possible exception of photo number 2. With the Spanish variety,the flower stem is vertical and tends not to droop over at the top...however photo 2 appears to be doing this which 'may' suggest the native bluebell.Also it is more blue,the Spanish is really lilac.My own bluebells are Spanish...
Your first picture looks a bit like an English native, but I think that the flowers don't all come from one side of the stem, and that they're not drooping enough. This pic shows English native
But as my earlier link says, the colour of the pollen is the definitive difference, and the scent of course.
As this link from the Natural History Museum states, "....The flowers are usually deep violet-blue but paler blue forms (rarely white and very rarely pink) do occur...." and I photographed one yesterday in the centre of a 125 hectare Ancient Woodland
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I also saw two solitary white specimens in the old bluebell wood. They were side hanging and identical in every other way to the blue ones.
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Think they'e all Spanish bluebells http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/survey-bluebells/index.html
How do you tell the difference between Spanish and English?
English bluebells only come in blue for a start. The other thing to look at is where the individual flowers are on the stem. In English ones all the flowers are on one side only, in Spanish ones the flowers are circled around the stem.
Make sure you don't spread Spanish bluebells to a wood. They are a curse.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/british-natural-history/survey-bluebells/bluebell-identification/index.html
I will try and take some more photos as these plants are all different but you can't tell with my shoddy photography.
Hi cotty, it appears to me you have all Spanish (or hybridised) bluebells there,with the possible exception of photo number 2. With the Spanish variety,the flower stem is vertical and tends not to droop over at the top...however photo 2 appears to be doing this which 'may' suggest the native bluebell.Also it is more blue,the Spanish is really lilac.My own bluebells are Spanish...
Your first picture looks a bit like an English native, but I think that the flowers don't all come from one side of the stem, and that they're not drooping enough. This pic shows English native
But as my earlier link says, the colour of the pollen is the definitive difference, and the scent of course.
As this link from the Natural History Museum states, "....The flowers are usually deep violet-blue but paler blue forms (rarely white and very rarely pink) do occur...." and I photographed one yesterday in the centre of a 125 hectare Ancient Woodland
I also saw two solitary white specimens in the old bluebell wood. They were side hanging and identical in every other way to the blue ones.