The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

Common name: בן-חצב סוככי זן איפני

Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus)

Distribution: W Europe, N Africa

Life form: Geophyte

Etymology: Although the epithet peruviana means "from Peru", it is strictly a western Mediterranean species. Linnaeus named the species in 1753, noting an earlier name given to the plant by Carolus Clusius, Hyacinthus stellatus peruanus.[6] It is said that Clusius misunderstood a statement that the bulbs came from a ship called "Peru" and thought that they came from the country
Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir