what is this bulb

Bulb. Spring flowering, starts out like a lantern, opens to a star with maroon centre. Six petals, 3 inner, slightly overlap the outer, flower 35mm long, stem 220mm long.Leaf 300mm long, quite course, lightish green with brown streaks, flop over backwards.

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#1 Comment By Downtoearthdigs On 10/04/2016 @ 10:20 pm

This appears to be the Shooting Star wildflower.

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