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unusual facts about bluebell


Leon Best

Best qualifies to play for the Republic of Ireland through his mother, who is from Bluebell, Dublin.


Auburn Botanical Gardens

The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Branch of the Department of Environment and Climate Change has identified the gardens as part of the recovery plan for certain environments and species, including Cooks River clay plain scrub forest, Acacia pubescens (downy wattle) and Wahlenbergia multicaulis (Tadgell's bluebell).

Barleria cristata

Barleria cristata (Philippine violet, bluebell barleria or crested Philippine violet), is a plant of the Acanthaceae family.

Bernard Holden

As an active Superintendent of the Line and later President of the Bluebell Society, Holden over saw the retention and then the expansion of the railway from near East Grinstead to Sheffield Park and in 1992 was appointed MBE for services to railway preservation.

Bluebell Wood

Garscadden Wood, a nature reserve north of Glasgow commonly called "Bluebell Wood"

Bodkin Hazel Wood

In addition to common species such as Dog's mercury (Mercurialis perennis), Primrose (Primula vulgaris), Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa), Wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and Ramsons (Allium ursinum), a number of scarce species are present.

Family of Humfrey of Xanth

In Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn, his brief union with Bluebell Elf produces Rapunzel, Grundy the Golem's wife.

Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve

Spring-flowering plants that occur on the site include the bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), common primrose (Primula vulgaris), lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), ramsons (Allium ursinum) and wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).

Frithy and Chadacre Woods

There are many other woodland floor plants including Early Purple Orchid Orchis mascula, Twayblade Neottia ovata, Gromwell Lithospermum officinale and Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scriptus.

Hanabusaya

It is known in English as diamond bluebell and in Korean as Geumgang Chorong, having been named for the site at which it was first discovered, Geumgangsan Mountain.

Hart of Dixie

The series, created by Leila Gerstein, stars Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, a New Yorker who, after her dreams of becoming a heart surgeon fall apart, accepts an offer to work as a general practitioner in the Gulf Coast town of Bluebell, Alabama.

Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Longhope

The upper edges of the reserve were not quarried and the area supports ancient woodland flowers such as Wood Anemone, Wood Sorrel, Primrose, Sweet Woodruff, Greater Butterfly-orchid, Herb Paris and Bluebell.

Honeypot Wood

Plants in the reserve include Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), plants in the genus Neottia (formerly known as Listera, commonly known as twayblades), Paris quadrifolia (True-lover's Knot or Herb Paris), Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta, Common Bluebell or Bluebell) and St John’s wort (Tipton's weed, chase-devil, or Klamath weed).

Pulmonaria longifolia

In the New Forest in England, P. longifolia shares its habitat with wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), bastard balm (Melittis melissophyllum), wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).

Sheffield Park railway station

The station opened in 1882 at the request of the Earl of Sheffield, a local landowner and promoter of the The Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Act 1877 which authorised the construction of a line from East Grinstead to Lewes, now popularly known as the Bluebell Railway.

West Blean

The Trust will also establish and maintain an annual coppice management programme, which will benefit the nationally rare heath fritillary and white admiral butterflies, and many other species, including bluebell, wood anemone, long-eared owl, yellow necked wood mouse and dormouse.

Wild hyacinth

Hyacinthoides non-scripta, a European species also called the common bluebell


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