Camas Bulbs For Sale Oregon

Camas bulbs need to be cooked at low temperatures for at least 12 hours allowing maximum conversion from inulin to fructose making them sweet and sugary like a pear or fig.

Camas bulbs for sale oregon. This plant is in the lily family and produces blue spiked flowers and grass like leaves. The withering tepals twist together around developing papery capsules. At a short distance the colour resembles lakes of bright clear water meriwether lewis 1806. Easy to grow a stunning addition to your sunny border a striking blue spire rising to the sky in your spring garden a native plant that is easy to grow and free of most pests and predators camassia is one of the best flowers to grace the pacific northwest.

Camassia quamash bulbs are an excellent choice for moist loam and clay soils. Full sun partial shade. Grows from a solitary starchy 1 2 in 2 5cm bulb producing numerous basal grass like leaves. The 5 20 pale blue to deep blue star shaped flowers bloom up a tall scape leafless stem from bottom to top and have bright yellow stamen and 6 tepals.

Camassia leichtlinii semi plena. Full sun to partial shade hardiness. Native peoples have refined the art of skillfully digging the bulbs with a crafted stick and then slow cooking camas in an earthen oven a finely tuned skill. It is more tolerant of shade and drought than the common camas and also more competitive.

5 large camassia bulbs botanical name.