What kind of flower is this?

[SAWYER]

I have this one and some just like it but white that bloomed fairly quick over the last few days

 

[FoBoT]

i'll go with amaryllis for $200 Alex

 

[edro]

daylily

 

[moshquerade]

pink lily

 

[FoBoT]

The Lily And The Amaryllis

While exhibiting a pretty Amaryllis to a person fond of flowers, and with some desire to know about them, though too modest to permit one to say she had botanical tendencies, the writer was asked: "You say this is not a lily but an amaryllis, and that it belongs to a very different family of plants; but it looks like a lily to me. How can you tell it is not a lily?" It was a good chance to explain that there was often not much difference in nature between families of plants placed widely apart by botanists; that in some cases organs free from one another would make one distinction, while the same organs united would be the leading distinction in another. And it was the case here. In the Amaryllis the tube of the perianth was united with the ovarium, and thus the seed vessel seemed to be below the flower, while in the lily the perianth or showy floral part was not united, and hence the seed vessel would seem to be placed inside or above. In this way we could see at a glance that the lily was not an amaryllis, or a plant of the amaryLis flower was not a lily.

 

[TraumaRN]

Asiatic Lily most likely

 

[BoomerD]

The Lily And The Amaryllis

While exhibiting a pretty Amaryllis to a person fond of flowers, and with some desire to know about them, though too modest to permit one to say she had botanical tendencies, the writer was asked: "You say this is not a lily but an amaryllis, and that it belongs to a very different family of plants; but it looks like a lily to me. How can you tell it is not a lily?" It was a good chance to explain that there was often not much difference in nature between families of plants placed widely apart by botanists; that in some cases organs free from one another would make one distinction, while the same organs united would be the leading distinction in another. And it was the case here. In the Amaryllis the tube of the perianth was united with the ovarium, and thus the seed vessel seemed to be below the flower, while in the lily the perianth or showy floral part was not united, and hence the seed vessel would seem to be placed inside or above. In this way we could see at a glance that the lily was not an amaryllis, or a plant of the amaryLis flower was not a lily.

Ummm...yeah, ok...still looks like a lily...probably an asiatic lily to me.

These are what I think of when I think of amaryllis:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...m=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1249&bih=799

These are asiatic lilies:
http://www.google.com/search?q=asia...pJYrOiALKmpDqCQ&ved=0CEYQsAQ&biw=1249&bih=799

I freely admit, I don't know shit about botany...and I think amaryllis are a form of lily...but the one in the OP doesn't look to me like the standard amaryllis.

 

[Mike Gayner]

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