Lilies

The Lily family, Liliaceae, originally consisted of about 4000 plus known species. Latest classification has organized these into more compact, related families.
Lilies are showy monocot flowers. The plants are herbaceous perennials, propagating from underground bulbs. The flowers have six, colored tepals (not petals) in two whorls of three each. Though lilies produce seeds, they are not viable.
Lilies are widely distributed, mostly in warm temperate and tropical regions. They are valuable ornamental plants and are traded as cut flowers.
The oil extracted from lilies has healing and softening properties for sensitive skin. Especially, when the lily fragrance oil is mixed with Calendula oil, it works wonderfully.
Lily flowers stand for love, purity, femininity, unity and transience.
We will look at a few flowers that bear the name Lily; may not be ‘True Lilies’ technically, according to new classification.



I like Lily flower as it stands for feminity, but I never knew that there are about 4000 species.
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The daylily is absolutely gorgeous – I love the colour! 🙂
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(EN) Interesting fact about tepals. Love learning from you. Thanks for sharing, Indira 😊
(IT) Interessante fatto sui tepali. Adoro imparare da te. Grazie per la condivisione, Indira 😊
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Awesome 👍👍 👍 pictures, Indira and they r such lovely flowers.
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Hi
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Informative read Indira. Such vibrant colours of the lilies 👌👌
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Nice post. Rain lilly was there at my home. Others all new to me
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Wonderful work !
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Thankz for sharing those beautiful lillies !!! 🙂
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Amaryllis lily is growing on our premises and this flower is also called Easter Lily! Good share Indira! Have a great day! 😊
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Your third eye is seeing beautiful things.😂
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As usual, lovely photographs.Thank you very much for sharing.🌹🙏
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Beautiful flowers! 🙂
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Beautiful flowers, Indira! How I love to see all these in the garden. Sadly winter is almost upon us but I look forward to their arrival again next spring.
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Beautiful capture. The pictures makes to forget everything and dissolves in their beauty.
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Tepals not petals… I didn’t know this though I have grown lilies a lot!
Very informative post about lilies!
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Beautiful pictures with good information.
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I particularly like the last photo! Interesting post Indira.
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Very !
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I love lilies, such a beautiful flower in so many colors. Thank you for sharing the lily info, I did not know they had tepals and not petals! 🙂
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👌👌
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Beautiful job dear. This is a great way to say thank you to God’s wonderful art.
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Wow… amazing beautiful capture
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This is beautiful! 🙂
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Beautiful photos and very informative write up. I didn’t know that lilies have so many species. Amazing
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