What is this?

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by TTornbom, Oct 22, 2006.

  1. TTornbom

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    First time user, so if this pic gets attached it will be a miracle. If it does....I would like to know what the name of the flower/plant is. They grow as they please, when they please, with no interference from me. About every couple of years will grow in same place. Otherwise they come up seemingly overnight, yards away from last years blooms, usually in early fall, stay a few days then poof gone.

    If the pic isn't in this...someone tell me how to get it in here from "Manage Attachments"

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  3. TTornbom

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    Trying again...What is this?

    Hopefully the pics attached this time. It says they are here.

    I would like to know what the name of the flower/plant is. They grow as they please, when they please, with no interference from me. About every couple of years will grow in same place. Otherwise they come up seemingly overnight, yards away from last years blooms, usually in early fall, stay a few days then poof gone.

    A bit more info...I think they are a bulb plant. The foliage is a dark green thin spear shaped with light green edges. The flower blooms on a stalk from the center of the foliage that grows about 2+ feet taller than the foliage.

    I have tried marking where they come up so the spot does not get mowed but they do not cooperate and appear in other places.

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  4. smivies

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    Re: Trying again...What is this?

    Probably Lycoris radiata (aka Spider Lily), a bulb in the amaryllis family. Foliage comes up sometime after flowering, persists for the winter, and dies back in the spring. It can be a bit finicky as to flowering so not every clump flowers every year. That issue can be aggravated if the foliage is inadvertantly cut every once in a while.

    Simon
     
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    Re: Trying again...What is this?

    Thank you so much Simon. Explains a lot. Mainly how it appears that these flowers seem to come from nowhere, then foliage appears. If I don't mark where they are the foliage goes away and I have to try remember where they were. How do they manage to appear here and there...literally yards away from last years blooms? This year they bloomed on the west side of the house and last year it was the south east side.

    I live in SE Texas and everything on the property is under shade of Pine, Oak and Sweet Gum trees...filtered sunlight at best with hideous heat & humidity in the summer. I do have a dwarf schefilera (sorry about the spelling), peace lily and a dracena outside on my deck that seem to love the heat, humidity and rain.

    Thanks again for your help.
    Terry
     
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