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Hyacinthus orientalis
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species of plant
OverviewAI-generated
*Hyacinthus orientalis*, commonly known as the garden hyacinth, hiasinth, Jacint, or hyacint, is a species of plant in the family Asparagaceae. It belongs to the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Liliopsida, and order Asparagales. The parent taxon is the hyacinth.
The species is native to Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, and Türkiye. It has been introduced to Arkansas, Bulgaria, California, Cuba, Cyprus, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Haiti, Ireland, and Italy. Its taxon range is listed as China.
Records for this taxon exist in various databases, including 17,674 occurrences in GBIF and 587 records in iDigBio. The iDigBio records include 519 media files from institutions such as NY, CM, BRIT, TTC, and DEK, with collections from the United States and Mexico.
Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
Common Name: common hyacinth
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 587
- With media
- 519
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- NY, CM, BRIT, TTC, DEK, UT
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
Hyacinthus orientalis, the common hyacinth, garden hyacinth or Dutch hyacinth, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It is native to western Asia, from southern Turkey, through Syria and Lebanon to northern Israel. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century. It is widely cultivated everywhere in the temperate world for its strongly fragrant flowers which appear exceptionally early in the season, and frequently forced to flower at Christmas time.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyacinthus orientalis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.