Blood Lily

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What’s Count Dracula’s favourite Lily? A Blood Lily, of course! LOL! Not very funny I know but then I was never any good at making (or remembering!) jokes!

I’m no Dracula but nevertheless I do have his favourite lily – a Blood Lily (Scadoxous florus) just beginning to flower in our kitchen!

It grows VERY quickly once it makes a start! In just a few days it has gone from hardly a “pip” to a globular flower head!

Just making a start:

A few days later:

Father’s Day 2016:

Last year but a month later!:

In about a week’s time that is what it will look like again this year!

If you are wondering why I photographed it in front of the TV it is because the flowers have very fine petals so you need to show it off with a dark background or it doesn’t show up at all.

Edited to include a couple more photos:

19 Jun, 2016
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Paulspatch

Now, that is nice.I've never seen one before!
Did you notice, I didn't mention the joke ha ha!!

19 Jun, 2016

Oliveoil

never seen one of these before, beautiful flower :O)

19 Jun, 2016

Bjs

Me neither quite spectacular does it actually belong to the lily family as I know it,,the name does not give me a clue.
In other words I am clueless.

19 Jun, 2016

Amy

Balcony its fabulous ,I did have one once but it didn't grow,clever you well done !

19 Jun, 2016

Seaburngirl

No it doesn't it belongs to the Amyrillaceae, true lillies belong to lilliales. they are both monocots then their botany diverges.

its a stunning bulb non the less.

19 Jun, 2016

Hywel

It is very unusual and beautiful :)

19 Jun, 2016

Steragram

Wouldn't it make a wonderful speeded up film of it opening? Its like a sparkler!

19 Jun, 2016

Balcony

Thank you for your comments (nobody has mentioned my bad joke! :-))!)

I didn't realise that so few people knew of it! I've had it at least 5-6 years & it comes back every year! It was sent to me my a member of another gardening forum I post on after I had sent him a bulb of my Amaryllis.

Thanks, Sb, for explaining that for me! :-)

Stera, there is a short video on the internet showing how quickly it opens. I wish I knew how to do time lapse photography!

21 Jun, 2016

Steragram

Ah well, there's a learning curve for you!

21 Jun, 2016