What is the difference between the red spider lily and datura?
The red spider lily, also known as manjusaka, is a variety of Lycoris radiata; datura, also known as flower of the ocean and drunken-heart flower, is a plant of the Solanaceae family. The flowers of both are very beautiful and much loved by people, so what is the difference between the red spider lily and datura?
Difference one: different family and genus
The red spider lily is a variety of the species Lycoris radiata, in the plant kingdom, angiosperms, monocotyledons, Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae, Lycoris genus; datura is a plant in the plant kingdom, angiosperms, angiosperm subphylum, dicotyledons, Asteridae, Solanales, Solanaceae, Datureae tribe, Datura genus.
Difference two: different alternative names
The alternative names of the red spider lily include red Lycoris, manjusaka, dragon-claw flower, old crow garlic, garlic-head grass, ghost-fire torch, ghost flower, hell flower, and so on; the alternative names of datura include mandala, manda, manzha, manda, drunken-heart flower, dog walnut, flower of the ocean, maple eggplant flower, ten-thousand peach flower, naoyang flower, big trumpet flower, mountain eggplant, and so on.
Difference three: different morphology
The red spider lily is a perennial herbaceous plant, with a nearly spherical bulb covered by a purplish-brown membrane, 1-3 cm in diameter. The leaves are narrowly ribbon-shaped, about 15 cm long and about 0.5 cm wide, with blunt tips, dark green, with a powdery green band in the middle. The umbel is terminal, the flower scape is about 30 cm tall, and the flowers are bright red. The flowering period is August-September, and the fruiting period is October; datura is a wild upright woody annual herbaceous plant of the Solanaceae family, 0.5-1.5 m tall, with a stout, cylindrical stem, pale green or tinged with purple, lignified in the lower part. The leaves are alternate, becoming opposite-like in the upper part, with leaf blades ovate or broadly ovate and gradually pointed tips. The flowers are solitary in the branch forks or leaf axils, upright, with short pedicels; the calyx is tubular, 4-5 cm long; the corolla is funnel-shaped, greenish in the lower half and white or pale purple in the upper part. The capsule is upright, ovoid, 3-4.5 cm long and 2-4 cm in diameter, with hard prickles on the surface or sometimes without prickles and nearly smooth, turning pale yellow when mature.