What Is This?
August 15th, 2008Somebody out there has to know what this is called. Beautiful and not scary.
Thus ends Florida Fauna Week. o
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spider lily?
I second Spider Lily.
My favorite thing to photograph…flowers…Dont know what kind of flower it is but it is gorgeous!
I third Spider Lily: http://www.kipapanursery.com/white_spider_lily_lg.jpg
Florida Fauna Week? You mean Flora Week, right?
I’ve really enjoyed these photos. So many lovely plants that don’t grow up north.
@Flora supporters, I didn’t want to leave out the background stuff, which is fauna, right?
You say flora, I say tomato.
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.
@tonimj, That’s kind of my point… the flora is the fauna in Florida.
Gotcha.
It is a Crinum Lily, http://floridagardener.com/pom/crinum.htm and they grow quite large.
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
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
The scalp massager.
Don’t know what the heck it is, but it’s pretty. And my Latin sucks, so I say tomato, too, Jon!
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……
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.
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/wiki/Image:Crinum_Lily.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/education/altamaha/images/spider_lily.jpg).
Great shot…
Thank you.