Re: Plant ID

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: Plant ID
• From: B* P* <b*@idcnet.com>
• Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:20:03 -0500
• References: <199808111447.KAA02644@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu>

> She was told it is called "Naked Ladies".  The foliage comes up in
> the spring, dies completely back, then it sends up its flower shoots

I believe this was identified as Lycoris squamigera--and my Taylor's
Encyclopedia of Gardening says  "named for the mistress of Mark Antony"
(!) But it also says not hardy here in zone 4, but mine are.
-- 
Barb Perna
Southcental WI,  Zone 4


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