Mystery bulb indentification: Surprise Lilly or of the Narcissus species?

Posted on Mar 14 in gardening reference, spring floweringby TalinaPrint

We snagged a bunch of free plants today that I was pawing through tonight. Now, the person who gave them to told us that we were getting iris and lilies. Upon inspection I am almost certain this is wrong. I am going to let you weigh in here because I am no know-it-all and this really has me stumped. I consulted Google but value your 2 cents much more.

Here is a look at what we have to go through:

Personally, I see daffodil looking things (the supposed “surprise Lily” mystery plant), tulips, daylilies (not iris), yucca and blanket flower.

This is the mystery plant we were told was a “Surprise Lilly” which is also referred to as a Resurrection Lily.

The bulb looks like it is of the Narcissus species to me. Maybe a mondo daffodil bulb… It can’t be a paperwhite because those can’t overwinter here and these bulbs have been naturalizing in her back yard for years though the ice storms and frigid winters. Take a look:

Every lily bulb I’ve seen has an artichoke like texture and doesn’t resemble an oniony looking smooth bulb like Narcissus often do. After some further reading I learned that the surprise lily is from the Amaryllidaceae family which also can look oniony and smooth. So now I am turning to the leaves for clues about what kind of plant this is.

Basically, I have no stinking clue what plant this really is. Let me know if you think you know! We are going to hold off planing them until we are sure. Don’t want to put them in the wrong location and have them die :-/

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One Comment

• maiden53 says:

  March 15, 2010 at 9:55 am

  absolutely no clue…..

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