| Beach Spider Lily |
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| Original date | 7/22/21 5:37 PM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 3000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.74mm |
| Exposure time | 1/297s |
| Aperture | 1.79 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 8 |
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Botanical name: Hymenocallis littoralis Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
Synonyms: Hymenocallis insignis, Hymenocallis pedalis, Hymenocallis tenuiflora
Synonyms: Hymenocallis insignis, Hymenocallis pedalis, Hymenocallis tenuiflora
Beach Spider Lily is a plant 30-70 cm tall with
narrow sword shaped leaves. The flowers are in fragrant white umbels,
each flower with slender recurved petals and elongated stamens emerging
from a central cup. The flower tube is 14-17 cm long or longer, and
there are six segments, which are united at the base by a thin
membranous cup of corona. The flowers are borne in cluster of 2-12
flower on around 2 ft long stalk arising from the centre of the leaves.
It is called spiderlily because of the petals, which look like spider
legs. The flowers open one by one in 4-5 days. The sword-shaped leaves
are about 4-5 cm broad and the plant flowers through out the year.
Beach Spider Lily is native to Mexico to N. Peru and Brazil, widely
cultivated in the Tropical world.
| Identification credit: Tabish | Photographed in cultivation in Delhi. |
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