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RE: Spider Lilies or Naked Ladies?

Thanks for all the feedback on this fellow gardeners. 
This really is helpful and within scope of propagation since I plan to
move onto propagation after identification.

I cannot say for certain, but I don't remember seeing ANY leaves on the
ones I have seen, and that is why the sight of it intrigues me. I went
to the IBS page and saw that its blossoms don't really look like either
the Lycoris squamigera or Amyrillis belladonna.
I  have never seen one all year to know if;
- it has leaves in another season, 
or
- if the ones viewed in bloom in our park had leaves that got mowed with
the grass, so perhaps I didn't notice them.
-
This "Surprise Lily" you mentioned has a name that explains my reaction
to it whenever I have seen the ones in our neighborhood. Since it is in
the park, I presume a nearby resident planted it there, and deep enough
to be hardy here in zone 6.  So I am interested in what it really is. I
will get my brother's Digital Camera next time it blooms and share a
bitmap of it. It has the tall, greenish-pink stalk of the previously
mentioned Lilies, but the flowers are much more nodding and with very
long pistils. They are usually pink flowers.
After identifying it, I am curious if it needs dividing every so often
so I can approach a neighborhood gardener for a trade or possibly order
it from a seed exchange or catalog.



Tim Chavez
z6 Wichita, Kansas
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> From: 	Steve Manion[SMTP:steely@fidnet.com]
> Sent: 	Sunday, August 16, 1998 3:00 PM
> To: 	seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: 	Re: Spider Lilies or Naked Ladies?
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> the belladonna lily has strap-like leaves, if the same one we call
> surprise
> lily, it has no leaves. i'm unable to find it in my bulb book........
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Connie Hoy <coneh@uswest.net>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
> Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 7:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Spider Lilies or Naked Ladies?
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