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Any Botanists?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:56 am
by woodchip
Found a bulb on a beach in the Florida Keys 25 years ago and been growing it in a clay pot ever since. It has now bloomed. See if you can identify it.
Pic:
Leaves:
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:55 am
by Duper
..uh.. don't get your face to close to it. It might spray you with funny spores.
(sorry, I've no clue. pretty cool looking though)
Does your county have a department that can identify that for you? Most do in the case of dangerous bugs and stuff. .. I forget what that Dept is called.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:00 pm
by flip
Is this the first time it has bloomed in those 25 years?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:03 pm
by Tricord
Looks like a kind of Agapantha (or Agapanthus as Wikipedia just revealed to me)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapanthus
Then maybe it might be something else
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:44 pm
by woodchip
flip wrote:Is this the first time it has bloomed in those 25 years?
Yes. Even tho I put it outside in the summer, for some reason it is blooming now. Only thing different is I've taken to watering it it with the water I use to rinse the coffee pot. Perhaps it likes the increased acidity.
Tricord, I don't think it is a Lily of the valley type flower but then if I knew I wouldn't be posting here
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:24 pm
by Sergeant Thorne
No idea.
Cool!
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:02 pm
by flip
Aha. Spider lily.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:06 pm
by Tunnelcat
Looks like it.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:16 pm
by woodchip
Cool. Thanks Flip. I kinda thought the bloom had a \"Spidery\" look about it. Interesting that the bloom is sterile. Also saw some red variants on the net that look pretty cool too. A bit after I took the flower pic I saw this little guy sitting on one of the lily's leafs. He is a common Grey Tree Toad that must of been down among the roots when I brought the plant in last fall. I set him loose outside after taking his pic so he can join the rest of his kind for this springs breeding season:
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:40 pm
by flip
Glad to help
. I think your right about the acidity too, having that plant bloom after 25 years must have been a neat thing to see.