• m.drummergirl

    spider lily?

  • LikeALurker

    I second Spider Lily.

  • http://asboringasitmaybe.blogspot.com Jakki

    My favorite thing to photograph…flowers…Dont know what kind of flower it is but it is gorgeous!

  • Hank
  • De in DC

    Florida Fauna Week? You mean Flora Week, right? ;)

    I’ve really enjoyed these photos. So many lovely plants that don’t grow up north.

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @Flora supporters, I didn’t want to leave out the background stuff, which is fauna, right?

    You say flora, I say tomato.

  • tonimj

    Well, fauna is actually the animal life of the surrounding area and flora is the plant life. Whatever the flowers are, spider lilies apparently, they are gorgeous.

  • http://blurbomat.com blurb

    @tonimj, That’s kind of my point… the flora is the fauna in Florida.

  • tonimj

    Gotcha.

  • Deb

    It is a Crinum Lily, http://​floridagardener​.com/​p​o​m​/​c​r​i​n​um.htm and they grow quite large.

  • Lesley

    Thanks for fixing my password, Jon. Now I can comment on how lovely this photo is. This is a white spider lily or even better, a “Lycoris albiflora”. http://​tinyurl​.com/​6brmyj

  • Jami

    I hate to be the downer(or the botanist) but the lilly above is a Lycoris but not a albiflora. but I am unfamiliar with the genra so I can’t give you a species name but its in the Liliaceaea family and is probably a steril hybrid. Many of the ones in the US are. YAY genetics!

    /end nerd alert

  • http://www.alladither.com All Adither

    The scalp massager.

  • http://greatdayinmaine.blogspot.com leesavee

    Don’t know what the heck it is, but it’s pretty. And my Latin sucks, so I say tomato, too, Jon!

  • phebe

    OK..so I live in southwest Florida and I have that plant in my yard. I’ll be damned if I know the name (but spider lily seems right) but here’s the deal: it just bloomed *today* and there is a freaking hurricane knocking on my door. Good sign? Maybe? Wish us luck.…..

  • Aimee Greeblemonkey

    ha ha, I asked the exact same thing when I shot those same flowers in Hawaii. Spider Lilies is correct, according to the Greeblemonkies.

    Told you we were nature buds.

  • ja_castillo

    Most landscape architects (such as myself) and landscape designers I know in the area (I live in Jacksonville, FL.) would identify this as a Crinum Lily (Crinum asiaticum– http://​commons​.wikimedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​I​m​a​g​e​:​C​r​i​n​u​m​_​L​i​ly.JPG). What we would consider to be a Spider Lily (Lycoris radiata) has a wide / round bloom in the middle of the fingered blooms (http://​www​.rivercenter​.uga​.edu/​e​d​u​c​a​t​i​o​n​/​a​l​t​a​m​a​h​a​/​i​m​a​g​e​s​/​s​p​i​d​e​r​_​l​i​ly.jpg).

    Great shot…

    Thank you.