sorry dont recognise it but it is very pretty.

Wylie, if that is its foliage in the background, it looks like it might be one of the rare hybrid Tuberose (Polianthes). I'm still looking for pictures.

Looks more like a Habranthus to me. Is it native or planted?

When I was living in another village, a neighbor (who lives in California) had these growing in the front yard. His procrador (power-of attorney) let me take a few, so it is planted. I have looked through the University of the Azores biodata base and found nothing. The background is grass and watsonia.

I looked up Habranthus and it is definitely not it. It is a regular spring bulb that disappears by summer.

Really annoying when you cannot find out what a plant is. Even more annoying when you know the flower, but cannot bring the name to mind!

Looking in the book of N.American Bulbous plants there are not that many to choose from. Try one of the Zephyranthes, but that is a bit of a wild gues. Without being able to see the anthers and so on inside the flower it is a bit hard to even come up with a family.

No, Zephyranthes has solitary flowers, not racemes. Other than the color and bloom time, the flowers are a dead ringer for tuberose. What are the leaves like, Wylie? If they have purplish spots, it might be some kind of Manfreda. If they have wavy edges, it might be a species of Chlorogalum. As you can tell, I am apparently obsessed with the Agavaceae! : ) Something about the flower spike just says "Agave Family" to me. Have you plowed throughthe Pacific Bulb Society's site yet? I'll keep looking, just 'cause I'm "'satiably curious".

It has straight, narrow leaves, like ixia.It isn't Zephyranthes, because those bloom in late summer here. I'm going to the Pacific Bulb site...thanks.

Crinum americanm is a possibility but that is a bog garden bulb and flowers Autumn onwards. Hmmmm. Really would love to see a closer shot of the insides.

Crinum flowers are arranged in umbels, too, rather than racemes.

Wylie, are the leaves in fans, like Ixia, too? Maybe I should be checking out the Iridaceae.