Easter lily
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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.
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. 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. This flower is also called the Calla lily in North America.
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- See also Easter Lily (badge), an Irish republican badge that uses this flower.
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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