An Easter lily is any one of a number of flowers, generally grown and sold as a pot plant or as a cut flower for the Easter festival. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year.
The plants include
- Lilium longiflorum, a scented lily, which is most commonly sold by the name Easter lily in North America and other parts of the world. Lilium longiflorum,(Japanese テッポウユリ, Teppouyuri) often called the Easter lily or November lily is a plant native to Japan This is the most commercially important of the plants called by this name.
- Zantedeschia aethiopica, an Arum lily, which became a symbol of the Irish republicanism after the Easter Rising of 1916. Zantedeschia aethiopica ( Lily of the Nile or Calla lily; syn Irish republicanism (Poblachtánachas is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a single independent Republic The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916 Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year This flower is also called the Calla lily in North America. Zantedeschia is a genus of twenty-eight species of Herbaceous Flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from
- Easter Lily (badge), an Irish republican badge that uses this flower. The Easter Lily is a Badge worn at Easter by Irish republicans as symbol of remembrance for Irish combatants who died during or were executed after the
Other plants may sometimes be called by this name. They include
- Madonna lily, or Lilium candidum, though it is usually June flowering
- Daffodils
- Zephyranthes atamasco
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