Zuzu, please help: There is a tiny Oxalis species with 'big' floweres (compared to the plant size) that grows where I live. I know it as Oxalis mallobolba, but did not find an entry.

The floweres are yellow, and on rare occassions creamish white.

Synonym for Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis perdicaria)

Thank you for your input, Jay, but I don't think it is the one I am looking for. The description says the flower size is 1" to 2". This Chilean native species has flowers not larger than 1 to 1.25 cm.

This Oxalis only blooms with the first rain of the year.

My Google-Chile image search gave results for Oxalis mallobolba. Maybe this species has to be added to the PDB?

According to Catalogue of Life that is correct. Whether or not the images in our database are correct, I have no idea.

Jay's right. It's a synonym of O. perdicaria.

Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis perdicaria)

This is a picture of the flowers - what do you say?

The flower size information in our database may be wrong. Every oxalis entry says the blooms are 1"-2" because the parent plant has that information. Parent plant info is automatically added to every other Oxalis entry. If there are Oxalis blooms smaller than 1"-2", the information in the parent plant entry will have to be edited.

Irritating - we cannot even name our own plants ......

Thanks, Zuzu!

Googling for my Oxalis, I just came across this page of Chilean native flora, with AMAZING pictures:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/...

The blooms in your photo certainly look similar to the ones in the database, but I don't really know the fine points of Oxalis differentiation.

So many different species have been reclassified as synonyms of O. perdicaria that some differences would be inevitable. Here's a list of all the synonyms:

http://www.catalogueoflife.org...

Zuzu, could you add O. mallobolba as a synonym? I would appreciate it, since it is the name most amateur Chilean native flora lovers know - it is the name provided by Dr. Paulina Riedemann (RIP) provided in her books on Chilean flora, the most popular ones.

Did you take a look at the link I provided above for spectacular pictures of Chilean flora?

I did add O. mallobolba as a synonym before I gave you the link.

I'm saving the pictures to look at later. I have six people here for dinner, so I've been a little rushed all day.

Here is a link to Oxalis perdicaria on the Pacific Bulb Society site (scroll down). Note the bulbs match yours, Ursula. I also read somewhere that the color range includes cream colored blooms.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/...

As usual, Zuzu, you are right! I was not aware they also grow in Brazil and Argentina (The Andes mountains sort of isolate us), so I learned a few things today I will post my pictures tomorrow (I'm delighted watching the link I found). Hope you have a great time with your guests!

Thank you, Connie - that's a very interesting link!