Type of Flowers
Pancratium maritimum: Pancratium maritimum, or ocean daffodil, is a species of bulbous found native to the Mediterranean share in addition to south-western Europe. That found tin besides last seen on the S Bulgarian in addition to due north Turkish coasts of Black Sea, where it is threatened alongside extinction. It grows on coastal sands or only inward a higher house the high tide mark. Other vernacular names are Sand Daffodil, Sand Lily in addition to the Lily of St. Nicholas. The Latin maritimum agency "of the seashore".
Pancratium maritimum is a bulbous perennial alongside a long cervix in addition to glaucous, broadly linear leaves, evergreen, but the leaves oftentimes cash inward one's chips dorsum during hot summers. Scape to forty centimetres (16 in). Flowers 3–15 inward an umbel, upwards to xv cm (6 in) long, white. Corona two-thirds equally long equally the tepals. The flowers convey a pleasing, exotic in addition to real subtle lily scent, which entirely becomes apparent during still, windless summertime nights that permit the frail fragrance to piece of job perceptible. Flowering is from August to October.
The found is pollinated past times a hawk-moth named Agrius convolvuli. These insects visits the blossom when the speed of the air current is nether 2 metres per 2d (6.6 ft/s). When it's higher than that the moths does non catch the Pancratium plant. Even if the species is pollinated inward an artificial way during windy conditions the pollination is non effective. Another specific of the sand lily is that it is non receptive to its ain pollen in addition to the found tin recognize it. This blossom tin last entirely cross-pollinated.
Easily grown but requires a real sunny position in addition to a real good drained, sandy soil. Needs hot summers to receive flowering in addition to is oftentimes a shy bloomer inward cooler climates. Hardy to USDA zone 8. Tolerates temperatures downwards to almost −5 °C (23 °F). Propagation past times seeds or sectionalization afterward flowering. Seedlings may blossom inward their tertiary or 4th year.
