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Bulbinella talbotii, Talbot's onion, is a small bulbous perennial native only to boggy areas of the Gouland Downs in New Zealand's South Island, growing in the Asphodelaceae family. It is a rare wild species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, so the key to growing it is keeping its roots consistently moist.
Bulbinella talbotii, commonly known as the Gouland Downs's onion and Talbot's onion, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand; only known to be found in the Gouland
Downs, where it is commonly found in boggy areas. B. talbotii was first described in 1964 by the botanist Lucy Moore. It gets its specific epithet, talbotii, after Harry Talbot, who assisted Moore in discovering the species.
Bulbinella hookeri is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is only known to be found in the Gouland Downs, which is north-west of Nelson. B. tallbotii's 2023 assessment in the New Zealand Threat Classification System was "Not Threatened".
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbinella talbotii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
