I've been having a busy week with work to finish for my art quilt class, then the Stitches and Craft show in Sydney today and tomorrow I'm off to Parliament House to sit with the ATASDA textile exhibition, but on Saturday I had a lovely lunch in a friend's garden and took lots of photos of her spring blooms including this unusual paintbrush lily - a south african friend tells us she had them growing in SA and they are either Haemanthus coccineus or Scadoxus puniceus either way they belong to the Lily family: Amaryllidaceae
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Gorgeous lily, Erica. They certainly do resemble a paintbrush. I've never seen or heard of them before so I won't try and pretend that I know what they are but they're beautiful all the same.
I've not seen it in here in Texas. It is stunning thanks for sharing.
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