Lycoris Albiflora (White Spider Lily) 白花曼殊沙華(シロバナマンジュシャゲ)

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are white spider lilies. A white spider lily is not a sibling of a red one, but a cross-breed of a red and a yellow (i.e., lycoris traubii) spider lilies. It's interesting that a child of a red and a yellow flowers is white.

A red spider lily is called "autumnal equinox flower" or "heaven or hell flower" in Japanese while a yellow spider lily "Zhong Kui lily" as its petals look like the beard of Zhong Kui, a demon hunter and Chinese deity who fights ghosts. 

In Japan, because of their toxicity, spider lilies were planted around graveyards to keep moles and other animals away from buried bodies but were also used to induce abortion.

Lycoris albiflora 白花曼殊沙華




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白花曼殊沙華です。赤い曼殊沙華の兄弟かと思ったらそうではなくて、赤い曼殊沙華と黄色の鍾馗水仙(リコリス)の自然雑種です。

鍾馗水仙(リコリス)の「鍾馗」は、花弁が波打っている様子を鐘馗ヒゲに例えたことに由来します。

曼珠沙華(彼岸花)は、その毒性のため、日本で昔まだ土葬が一般的だった時代にモグラなどから遺体を守るために墓の周りに植えられました。また堕胎薬としても使われていたようです。

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