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Urginea maritima - Sea Squill (Lily Family)
Valenciano: Ceba marina, Ceba porrera
Spanish: Cebolla albarrana
Large bulb, white or red up to 18cm in diameter, often proturuding above the
surface of the ground. The long, broad leaves are whithered by the flowering
time in the autumn. The flower stalk has more than 50 flowers which are whoite
with a green or purple mid-vein, spreading out like a star. There are several
subspeacies. A poinsonous plant, the fleshy bulb-scales being used to treat
heart disease. Locally used to malke rat poison. Often confused with the Asphodels,
but this plant flowers during the autumn and the Asphodels are Spring flowers.
Flowers: August - October