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Peace Lily Strange Flowers

Ah Spring continues! Well, I suppose as of 6/20 it is now Summer... but my plants continue to bloom! Most recently is my peace lily. I've actually had this plant for several years. It has surprisingly grown blooms every year too. I'll be honest, I probably need to take better care of this plant. It has grown many new plants and really needs to be re-potted and possibly even divided into separate plants. That is a task that might be on my task list in the near future. I'll let the plant finish flowering before then though. The variety of of peace lily that I have is of the variegated variety as you can see from it's leaves. Interesting with this variety, the leaves are not smooth with the rubbery texture like the solid green leaf variety. A funny thing about the peace lily is that it'll really let you know when it needs to be water. The entire plant will droop very dramatically if the soil dries out. Drooping doesn't necessarily mean that the plant is in any danger at that moment but it does mean you should really water your plant. I try to make sure the plant is well watered but there are some times I'm a day or half a day late and find my plant sadly drooping only to spring back up with life a few hours after being watered. That might be something interesting to do a time lapse video for. Just a thought. I don't want to purposefully make the plant reach that state though. Here is a photo of the plant below. You can see the variegation of the leaves with the white and green as well as the flower.

The Peace Lily with Flower
The Peace Lily with Flower

The plant has gotten pretty large over the last few years. I think it may be mostly roots in the pot at this point since the plant does require water almost ever few days. That's probably a sign there is little soil there to actually retain any moisture for the roots. So I probably really should check this out and re-pot the peace lily. But as you can see from the photo there is a flower fully bloomed. If you look carefully you can see a second flower but it hasn't opened up fully at this point yet. Here's a close-up of the fully formed flower.

Whoa! Crazy looking Peace Lily Flower
Whoa! Crazy looking Peace Lily Flower

The peace lily flower is very interesting, to say the least. There appears to be a white leaf. I'm not sure if that's more of a flower petal or a leaf. It has a similar texture as the regular green leaves of the plant. In the center is a crazy looking spiky thing. It actually has quite a firm and hard texture. Much firmer than you'd expect. These flower definitely aren't your conventional type of flowers but they're very unique and interesting! None of the flowers of course have ever been fertilized but I'd be interested to see what the seed pod as well as the seeds of the peace lily look like. 


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