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http://www.ChucksPlantWorld.com Hello, my name is Chuck Schwartz, owner of Chuck's Plant World. I've got a B.A. in biology with a chemistry minor and a focus in entomology, so, rather than tent houses or spray fields, I took up horticulture. I have 35 years of experience working in retail nurseries, landscaping, gardening, and learning irrigation. As the great sage, Lawrence Berra, once said, "You can observe a lot by watching", so I used an heuristic approach to find out what caused problems and troubleshot how to fix them. Gardening is both my hobby and my métier. Produced by http://www.PerformanceProductionServices.com Scilla peruviana, the Portuguese squill, is a species of Scilla native to the western Mediterranean region in Iberia, Italy, and northwest Africa. It is a bulb-bearing herbaceous perennial plant. The bulb is 6--8 cm diameter, white with a covering of brown scales. The leaves are linear, 20--60 cm long and 1--4 cm broad, with 5-15 leaves produced each spring. The flowering stem is 15--40 cm tall, bearing a dense pyramidal raceme of 40-100 flowers; each flower is blue, 1--2 cm diameter, with six tepals. The scientific name peruviana, "of Peru" results from confusion over the origin of the specimens from which the species was described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753; he was given specimens imported from Spain aboard a ship named Peru, and was misled into thinking the specimens had come from that country. The rules of botanical naming do not allow a scientific name to be changed merely because it is potentially confusing.