{"id":704,"date":"2008-03-25T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/what-are-those.html"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:58:28","slug":"what-are-those","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/what-are-those.html","title":{"rendered":"What are Those Lilies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe pictures of\r\n\r\nEaster Lilies<\/a> from a few days ago obviously aren’t the big Japanese\r\nlilies commonly sold as Easter Lilies; they’re a native plant,\r\nfound in their native habitat in Lowndes County, Georgia.\r\n

\r\nEverybody around here recognizes them, and seems to call them either\r\nEaster Lilies, or “those lilies you see in the ditch by the road.”\r\nNobody seems to know any other name for them, neither common nor botanic.\r\n

\r\nSo Gretchen and I journeyed two hours south to the strange land of\r\nGainesville, Florida, to attend the\r\n\r\nGopher Tortoise Council<\/a> spring meeting, taking a few samples\r\nof “those lilies” in hopes that the assembled botanists and biologists\r\ncould identify them.\r\nAnd they could!\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nOne botanist found this lily in a plant book.\r\nIt’s an Amaryllis, which seems confusing, since most sources\r\nsay Amaryllis come from South Africa.\r\nExcept for a few from other places, such as South America.\r\nAnd this one:\r\n

\r\n\r\nZephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae.<\/a>\r\nThe pictures match, right down to the pointy petals with green centers and yellow\r\npollen.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nApparently it does have a “common” name:\r\n\r\nTreat’s rain lily<\/a>, a variety of the Atamasco lily.\r\n

\r\nNot only that, it has\r\n\r\nthree other scientific names<\/a>:\r\n