Its an Asphodelus species.
http://images.google.com/images?q=asphodelus&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
"Jens Welling" <jens_welling at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>> can anyone out there please help me to identify this plant:
>>http://www.moonbarker.de/misc/KIF_2640_kl.JPG> (whole plant)
>http://www.moonbarker.de/misc/KIF_2627_kl.JPG> (flower)
>> I collected the plant on Mallorca/Spain last winter. There it grows just
> about everywhere, in rocky cliffs as well as in this sandy red soil.
> Underground it has several tubers which look a little like small potatoes.
>> When I collected the plant, it didn't have any flowers, they grew after I
> put it out in a sunny place in spring. After the bloom it lost all leaves
> but new ones sprouted in autumn.
>> Does anyone have an idea what kind of plant this is (Latin, English,
> German names)?
>> Thanks in advance :-)
> Jens
>> --
> Jens Welling
> N 51° 58,9' / E 008° 30,2'
> (next human settlement: Bielefeld, Germany)
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