Both orchid and lilies produce jazzy flowers that grab the attending of gardeners and florists . In botany , both orchids and lilies are classified as flowering plants , or angiosperms , and monocots . After that canonical relationship , orchid and lilies freestanding into distinctly different groupings .
Both orchidaceous plant and liliesproduce sporty flower that catch the aid of gardener and florists . In botany , both orchid and lily are classified as flowering plants , or angiosperms , and monocots . After that introductory kinship , orchids and lilies disjoined into clearly different groupings . The name orchid is applied to any flora in the orchid family , Orchidaceae . Lily is a name most correctly assigned only to plants in the genus Lilium , although many other industrial plant in the lily syndicate , Liliaceae , or other plant phratry are colloquially called lilies .
Diversity
orchid comprise the largest plant family on Earth — 25,000 mintage and over 100,000 manmade hybrids jazz as grexes . The orchids grow worldwide in a motley of habitat from tropical rain forest to desert and tundra . They are further place in standardized grouping or genus , which number around 800 , such as Cattleya , Phalaenopsis or Cypripedium . By line , lilies are all place in the genus Lilium , comprise some 100 mintage . They grow in woodland habitat in the temperate Northern Hemisphere . In addition , hundreds of cross exist that were developed by plantsman .
Growth Features
Orchids develop in a variety of forms . Most are fleshy - rooted plants known as epiphytes that brooch onto Tree . The roots are either horizontal and well into false bulbs that sprout allow for or are slight roots that sprout leaves from these origin tips . Some orchid also grow from bulblike tubers and rhizomes that mature in land . Lilies grow from ground - dwelling bulbs and produce upright staunch with leave-taking . The bulbs are fleshy and made up of overlapping scurf . Rarely , lily bulb grow with spreading underground stem call stolon .
Flowers
The only unwashed bond among orchid and lily flowers is that flower parts go on in multiples of three or six . Orchid flowers are highly modified or specialized in chassis equate to other plant kin . Orchids often have one petal form like a lip side by side to the flowers ' central sex organs . Flowers have various types of symmetricalness . The specialised orchidaceous plant flower form and structure is for specific pollination by an animal or louse . Orchids often develop and evolve in a unaired relationship with a pollinator . Lilies , on the other hand , are astray - open up trumpet , cupful , bowl , Melville Bell or platter shapes . The six petals equally surround or radiate from the fundamental sex organs . They are pollinated by any area insects that seek pollen or ambrosia .
Confusion in Comparisons
The orchid mob is so large and various that some orchids reckon just like true lily . These orchidaceous plant may be ordinarily known as a lily , such as those in the orchid genus Tricyrtis called toad lilies . Moreover , more genera in the lily kinsperson are know as lily , such as the day lily ( Hemerocallis ) , plantain lily ( Hosta ) , trout lily ( Erythronium ) and Peruvian lily ( Alstroemeria ) . Even plants in other mob are called lilies : calla lily ( Zantedeschia ) , waterlily ( Nymphaea ) , Mexican and Barbados lily ( Hippeastrum puniceum ) and pelting lily ( Zephyranthes ) . From a botanical stand , these other lily take issue from true lilies in their flower complex body part .
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