Back from the dead!
Who else has killed
L. cernuum? I'm
sure I did. Six years ago at least. Which is why I was so stumped by this grassy-leafed swan-necked little thing.
I'd been racking my brain to try and remember some species I may have acquired and forgotten in some dry, neglected weed-filled pot. I started to get excited, wondering what previously unknown treasure could be about to bloom. (The good thing about sporadic memory loss - happy surprises!) I puzzled over the knobbly sepal tips. Not like pumilum... and I
knew it couldn't be cernuum... because that had died and I turfed the pot contents years ago.
But as the buds became more and more pink there were less and less possibilities. I checked the buds (still many weeks from opening) on the
L. cernuum form Baranova only acquired this winter. Knobbly tips. Had to be it. But how?
How could I have looked after (I guess I didn't
) a pot of weeds for 6 years and never notice little tufts of grassy lily foliage? Why didn't I throw it out? If I didn't throw out the cernuum pot then what
did I throw out? How did little cernuum survive so long then re-emerge from a 6 year long subterranean disappearance with two stems and 4 buds total?
Only one answer.... Zombie lily!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAHHHHH!!! Zombie lily!
