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These days in the gardens of the Pedralbes monastery in Barcelona, ??calla lilies, water lilies, are blooming. Curiously, one is green, as seen in these photographs for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos.
It is the first time I have seen one of this color, a whim of nature. This one is different from the rest, although, in reality, the calla lily is a flower that does not exist, but is a spathe, a modified “leaf”. Therefore, this green color turns out to be a very special special leaf.
I was curious to find out thanks to this photographic report that the calla lily is not a flower. This green one that has grown in the garden of the Pedralbes monastery is very beautiful.
Calla lily is a perennial herbaceous plant native to South Africa, with a pleasant smell and a fleshy underground stem that sprouts every year in spring. And here again we find this spring winter that is also disrupting the life cycles of plants and flowers.
In the case of calla, its flowers are of various shades, including this green, and are recognizable by their characteristic bell shape. Its leaves, for their part, are arrow-shaped.
