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[bibster]

another english name for Lenten lily is it the Easter lily
Thanks

[mazie]

I think the daffodil / narcissus is known as the lenten lily bibster.

[bibster]

Thanks mazie thats what i found but the answer has got to do with time or seasons etc thats why i thought it could be the easter lily.

[mazie]

I'll have a look round and see what I can find bibster but I'm sure the Easter Lily is Lilium longiflorum

[mazie]

I've found this bibster, which I'm sure you have as well.

'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The primroses are found.

And there's the windflower chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.

And since till girls go maying
You find the primrose still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,

Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.

I can think it could be anything else but the daffodil. Good luck :o)

[Minoru]

Chambers Dictionary defines the Lenten Lily as the Daffodil.

[bibster]

Thank you all for your help ,as the question says lenten lily it could be the daffodil as lenten has got lent in the title which i suppose could be classed as a time or season.