Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 876

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-COMMON_NAMES- Broad-leaved Star
of Bethlehem
-GENUS- Ornithogalum 
-SPECIES- Ornithogalum latifolium
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Ornithogalum
-MODERN_SPECIES- Ornithogalum latifolium
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae. Also placed in: Hyacinthaceae.

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial (bulb should be seperated every 3 or 4 years)
-COLOR- snow white
-SEASON- __
-NATIVE_REGION- "Unsure...some say it is from Hungary, others Egypt and 
                 Arabia.  It can also be found in Italy."
-ZONE- __

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 22
-PUB_DATE- 1805
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0427 IMG0123.PCD
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