This came up right againt the foundation of my house every summer since the house was built & I moved into it in 2004. This spring I decided to dig it up & put it out in the garden to see what would happen. It is growing from a bulb, like a lilly bulb and in fact the leaves resemble Calla Lilly but that is not what it is. It hasn't bloomed yet but there is a new one growing about 8" from the original. Any ideas. I live in zone 7b on the coast of Va.
It sure looks like a calla lily. Maybe it will bloom now that you have moved it.
Janis
It has a thick stalk and grows from a bulb......so I suspect some sort of lily, but what kind I do not know...I live in NE, WI and I have seen calla lilies here, but grown in large pots or ground plots where the bulbs can be dug up and stored during winter.
it does look like a peace lily a bit doesn't it. But of course I can't imagine those surviving in that climate...
I wonderwhta would happen if you dug it up and brought it inside - do yo think it would bloom?
** My post has likely been edited 5 or 6 times for spelling or grammar, and is quite likely still incorrect.
Sparrow I might try digging up the smaller one & bringing it in to see what happens. Perhaps it is some kind of marsh plant? I don't live close to any marsh or on the waterfront, but this is a waterfront community so there are water type plants all over the place.
Looks like I found a stumper, nobody has any idea? I looked in a wildflower book for N. Am Plants & Atlantic Coast Plants, didn't find anything like it. I dug the little one up & potted it. It has its own little bulb. I guess Mama plant put out a runner which developed a bulb & produced Baby? The smaller plant was about a foot from the bigger one. I'll let you know what happens. Perhaps the cat knows what it is.
It looks sort of like a banan tree.
Doesn't get that big & no "trunk" Gets about a foot tall. I can't figure out either how a new one came up so far away from the original plant. Bulbs usually spread in a cluster effect.
Google Bird of Paradise and see if that looks like it.
Kay, zone 8, Louisiana
I have something someone sent me and they called it a parrot plant (tropical though so not sure what zone you are in) and it produces some kind of orange flower cause its got a bud on it.
-Deloris
Thanks Kay. Rocky suggested that too in another forum. Can't imagine where ir would come from though. I'll go check out Dave's Garden next.
Checked out Bird of Paradise info & Pics. That's not it. Leaves are different.
that plant is a cranimam lilly and they grow in clusters and if you devide them it will take forever for them to bloom and I am not sure I spelled that right , they have a bloom something simliar to the amirillo but are spiky and bloom in bunches like five or six to a stalk .
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