Lily In The Flowerbed. Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Lily in the flowerbed. Lily (lat. Lílium) is a genus of plants of the Lily family (Liliaceae). Perennial herb, provided with a bulb consisting of fleshy grass-roots leaves are imbricated, white, pinkish or yellowish. The Lily family comprises more than 110 species distributed mainly in Europe, and in Asia. The stem, which is a direct continuation of the bottoms of the bulbs, mostly leafy, simple or subramose at the top. Leaves arranged in a spiral or circles occasionally, almost always sessile, only two species with well-developed petioles and large ovate, base heart-shaped plates. In the corner of the last grassroots of the sheet is formed, the kidney, which, gradually expanding, turns into a young onion that blooms for next year. After sowing the seed and the lilies in the first year formed a little bulb that grows and grows for three, four, six and even seven years, without flowering stems, and only after receiving final dimensions, let the air stem, producing flowers; since then, it annually admits more and more strong stems.