A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Friday, 2 March 2018

Spider Lily


Today I had little more to do that to wonder why Hymenocallis littoralis is called "the spider lily".   I've counted the legs, and they don't match.

Perhaps the spiders in its native Latin America are actually insects.

Kawana


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  1. I guess I wouldn't be that specific. . .the name works for me!

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  2. Very pretty. Congrats on 10 years of blogging!

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