Nothoscordum × borbonicum Kunth
Honeybells; Fragrant false garlic
A hybrid: N. entrerianum × N. gracile, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).
33 photographs › Summary
Nothoscordum × borbonicum, also known as honeybells, fragrant false garlic and onion weed, is a bulbous perennial. It has become naturalized as a nearly cosmopolitan weed. The whitish flowers are sweetly scented. It is a hybrid between N. entrerianum and N. gracile.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Nothoscordum × borbonicum", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the family Amaryllidaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the family Amaryllidaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Allud, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) jamie-aa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).
Related
Other Nothoscordum 8 in the reference
Nothoscordum andicola Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel Kennedy
Nothoscordum bivalve Crow-poison Photo: CC BY, Sam Kieschnick
Nothoscordum bonariense Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Ezequiel Racker
Nothoscordum dialystemon Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Facundo Chieffo
Nothoscordum felipponei Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Agustina Medina
Nothoscordum gracile Slender false garlic Photo: CC0, author not stated
Nothoscordum hirtellum Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Agustina Medina
Nothoscordum montevidense Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC BY, Gastón Repetto Names & registers
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 72 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (63 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a herbarium, 6 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rulesopenalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 68 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.