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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2008-07-30 10:16 am
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Jersey Lily

There are two species of plant with the common name Jersey Lily.  Amaryllis belldonna and Nerine bowdenii.  neither, it turns out are native to Jersey...  They both come from South Africa.

Trying to collect British native plants for the garden can be very difficult on occasion!

[identity profile] vjezkova.livejournal.com 2008-07-30 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
This is true...there are plenty of imported plants and we still consider them "native". We have lots of weed from all sides of the world.Etc.

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
As a vrai Jerri, I'd point out that at least we do have our own orchid :-)
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[identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I just looked it up on Google. Quite a pretty purple.