Lycoris radiata
LATIN NAME: Lycoris radiata
COMMON NAME: Red Spider Lily
The red spider lily is a handsome, bulbous, perennial herb of the warm, open places, and its fine, long, narrow, strap-shaped leaves and its fine, upright heads of the many bright-red, narrow-petalled, curling flowers with the fine, long, showy stamens have made it a treasured and striking plant of the autumn garden. It grows as a bulbous, perennial herb, reaching up to sixty centimetres or so, with the fine, upright flower stems bearing the heads of the many bright-red, narrow-petalled, curling flowers with the fine, long, showy stamens, and the fine, long, narrow, strap-shaped leaves appear in their own season after the flowers, followed by the small, round, fleshy fruits of the few round, black seeds. It is a species of the flowering bulb in the amaryllis family, and it is native to the warm, open places of the eastern Asia, while it is treasured for its fine, striking red flowers, and it is known as the red spider lily.
In the amaryllis family it is the bright-red, curling-flowered spider lily of the autumn, a bulb whose leafless stems of red blossom light up the season.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The red spider lily bulb is a familiar subject in the chemistry of the amaryllis compounds, and the constituents have been examined with the greatest care by the researchers across the world. The botanists have mapped its place in the amaryllis family and the warm, open-place flora, and the horticulturists have grown the striking, red, curling form for the autumn border. The plant is best appreciated as a subject of study rather than a casual remedy, and it asks to be kept away from the children and the pets.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the autumn garden, the red spider lily is the bright-red plant of the season. Its curling flowers feed the few late insects, and the strap-shaped leaves give the border a fine, dark-green presence in their own season. It has become a treasured flowering bulb of the autumn border across the world, and it grows well in the gritty, well-drained ground of the warm, open spot. Bright-red, curling and striking.
The small, round, black seeds are easy to start — sow them straight away on the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining soil and cover them with the thinnest layer of fine grit, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and water them gently, and the first fine leaves will be along in good time.