Pancratium maritimum

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I consider Pancratium maritimum one of the most attractive plants in the Mediterranean countries.

Its large, pure white, trumpet-shaped flowers are of striking beauty and appear from July onwards.

Its leaves, contrary to most flowers, are green in winter but they get dry when the flowers appear.

 

 

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It grows from a bulb which is buried deep into the sand:

a fact that allows the plant to withstand the heat in the hottest months of the year.

 

 

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We rarely see single plants emerging from the sand.

Instead, we see it come out in clusters.

 

 

IMG_8674 [Pancratium maritimum]

 

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The fruit of the plant.

 

 

All photographs were taken at Legrena on various summer dates over the last 3-4 years.