Ornithogalum conicum Jacq.

Plants 300-600(-900) mm high. Bulb subglobose, 25-45 mm diam., flesh sometimes pale pink, outer tunics whitish, papery. Leaves spreading or suberect, 5-10, one quarter to one third as long as flowering stem, partially or completely dry at flowering, oblong-lanceolate, 45-100(-120) x 6-25(-30) mm, glabrous but densely ciliate on margins. Raceme subcorymbose to conical-cylindrical, compact, 30-80 mm long at flowering, elongating to 60-100(-150) mm long in fruit, (11-)15-30(-35)-flowered; lowermost pedicels 10-17 mm long, elongating to 15-28 mm in fruit; bracts petaloid, whitish and papery, ovate, acute or acuminate, usually exceeding pedicels, lowermost 14-20 mm long. Flowers white with small greenish yellow centre, unscented or faintly honey-scented; outer tepals ovate-lanceolate, inner obovate, 14-17(-20) x 6-9(-12) mm. Stamens half as long as tepals; filaments filiform or subulate, white, 6-8 mm long, rarely inner widened at base. Ovary ovoid, 4-5 mm long, greenish yellow but brighter yellow at apex; style white, 2-3 mm long. Capsule fusiform to oblong-ovoid, 3-lobed, apiculate, 10-13 mm long. Seeds angular and irregularly folded, papillate to echinulate, 2-3 mm long.

Can be grown by seedlings.