{"id":8982,"date":"2022-03-09T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:14:39","slug":"treats-rain-lily-2022-02-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/treats-rain-lily-2022-02-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Treat&#8217;s Rain Lily 2022-02-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nA sure sign of spring: Treat&#8217;s rain lily.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Treat's rain lily\" name=\"TRL:Treats-rain-lily\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-02-25--rain-lily\/20220225_165340.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-02-25--rain-lily\/20220225_165340.jpg\"  alt=\"[Treat's rain lily]\" border=0><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2022-02-25--rain-lily\/20220225_165340.html\">Treat&#8217;s rain lily<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<em>Zephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae<\/em>\r\nthese days is classified as an amaryllis. \r\n<p>\r\nThis is a special native variety of Atamasco lily, <em>Zephyranthes atamasca<\/em>, that only grows in counties on either side of the GA-FL line, plus maybe some in Alabama.\r\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efloras.org\/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&#038;taxon_id=242102092\">Flora of North America (eFloras.org)<\/a>,<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n&ldquo;the greater length of the perianth tube compared with that of the filaments in <em>Z. treatiae<\/em> readily separates that species from <em>Z. atamasca.<\/em>&rdquo;\r\nSome botanist correct me, but I think that means that the petals of the flower form a tube farther out in Treat&#8217;s rain lily, while\r\nin the Atamasco lily the petals are more separate.\r\n<p>\r\nMore about Treat&#8217;s rain lily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/what-are-those.html\">in an old blog post<\/a>.\r\n<p> \r\nThey are sometimes called Easter lilies, because people see them growing in road ditches around Easter time,\r\nbut they are not those big Japanese imports.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sure sign of spring: Treat&#8217;s rain lily. 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