2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Perennial bulbous plants of the genus Licoris surprise the world with their unusual "disheveled" flowers. Being related in the Amaryllis family to such plants as Narcissus, Snowdrops, White flowers, which are not afraid of Siberian frosts, plants of the genus Lycoris prefer warmer territories. But, lovers of exoticism manage to grow Likoris in central Russia
Lycoris is a small genus of flowering plants, numbering in its ranks no more than twenty species. The homeland of plants is considered to be the countries of eastern and southern Asia, as well as eastern Iran and Afghanistan, from where they successfully "dispersed" to flower beds of other continents and countries. They even made it to America, where they successfully took root in the lands of North Carolina.
Plants of the genus Licoris love to amaze people with the appearance of their unusual flowers, as well as some of the features of their life. Unusual flowers are given by filamentous long stamens, which are two to three times longer than flower petals, which gives the whole flower the appearance of a picturesque and bright plant fountain. If you plant next to plants with different colors of flowers, then the flower "fountain" will sparkle with all the colors of the heavenly rainbow. The somewhat "disheveled" appearance of flowers, of which there can be from four to eight pieces on one peduncle, as well as the fact that their bloom in the southeastern United States coincides with the peak of the hurricane season in this part of our planet, gave the Americans a reason to give Lycoris a folk name - "Hurricane flowers" ("Hurricane flowers").
The peculiarities of the life of Licoris include the different times of the appearance of the leaves and flowers of the plant on the surface of the earth. Like the familiar plant called Mother and Stepmother, whose sunny flowers appear on the surface of the earth before the leaves, Lycoris flowers on long peduncles appear when there are no leaves. The thin and long leaves of Licoris appear when the flowers have already withered. Such an alternation of the birth of flowers and leaves of a plant gave rise to many different legends among people, of course, associated with sad love. Two elves became heroes of one of the Chinese legends. An elf named Manu guarded the plant flower, and an elf named Saka guarded its leaves. Guarding the plant alone, they decided to argue with fate and managed to meet, falling in love with each other at first sight. With their willfulness, they angered God, who imposed a curse on them, according to which Manchu flowers would never again meet Saki leaves. When the elves died and met each other in another world, they took an oath that after reincarnation they would definitely meet again on Earth. However, they failed to keep their vows. Therefore, the Chinese and Japanese call Likoris - "Manyusaka".
Likoris has another popular name - "Red spider lilies" ("Red spider lilies"). This name is associated with a sad legend about people who met once, but whose fates, after a single meeting, will follow completely different paths of life, excluding a new meeting of these people on Earth. And along their paths of life "Red spider lilies" will bloom. It is possible that the tradition of the Japanese people is associated with such legends - to use these flowers at funerals. Even the Japanese name for Likoris sounds like "Higan", meaning the bank of the Sanzu River, an analogue of the Styx River in Greek mythology that separates the real world and the afterlife.
But, legends are legends, and modern gardeners are actively using Licoris as an ornamental plant around the globe, especially in lands with a warm climate. Today there are more than two hundred varieties of Licoris.
In Japan, for example, the edges of rice fields are decorated with a strip of bright Lycoris flowers, combining the useful with the beautiful. Although some species of Licorice end the growing cycle with mature seeds, many species are sterile and therefore reproduce only vegetatively.
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