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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