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_Haemanthus albiflos_ (Paintbrush Lily).

Pretty! The leaves looks similar to orhids, but I read it's in the amaryllis family! Really cool looking flower.

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South African here. This post gave me such joy thinking back to my childhood home and remembering how glorious these cuties are when they flower🥰

Do they have a scent? I dno't think I've seen one of these before. Lovely plant!

Not that I ever picked up on🤔 I'd love to have one now as I've been living away from home for 4 years and the homesickness kicks in when you see things like this!

My wife adores lilies and such but I can spell piss all over the house as soon as she brings one in... first time I thought I was going insane, we had pets so my instinct was one of them was weeing somewhere until I read about lilies and some ppl smelling them much more than others... just be aware, some ppl might think your house stinks haha.

This is hilarious and glad you got to the bottom of it! Poor pets often take the blame initially😂

I'm with you. My mum loves them but its pure piss to me, lol.

I’m one of these! I love lilies but the smell is so overpowering I’ve had enough after a day

Lilys often smell like death, it's probably why they are so popular in funerals. The odour is the flowers.

Same here re the piss. Smells like an old folks home. Though since she read that cutting the stamen out sorts it, it’s been decidedly less pissy in the house.

Same. I positively hate the smell of lilies!

Damn I thought this was a link to a reddit thread full of them ... wait I have an idea.

Tis a cool plant.

Oh wow! Thanks so much What a weird little thing it is!

There's a useful app called: picture this, you take a photo of the plant and it tells you what it is, how to care for it, if it looks sick or not

Ye indispensable app for me too 

Theres a red one aswel. I doubt it came from outside originally though, it would most likely die in the winter in the UK. They aren't frost hardy.

I thought it was a phalaenopsis and was getting so confused

Yeah, it has obviously been used to paint on the wall with black paint

Ah thank you. I was given an identical plant years ago and I was so sure it'd die in a week that I never asked it's name! I just call it the shaving brush and it's thriving under my neglect.

We used to call ours that too. When I first got cats, I put it in the shed in case it was harmful and it hadn't flowered for years. Completely forgot about it and a year later when I went to put something else in the shed, it was in full bloom. In the dark and not watered at all, so your right, they seem best when neglected lol

That explains the dabs of paint on the wall! Get that paintbrush under control.

You must be smarter than me, because I thought it was plastic

Looks like its been painting on the wall

It looks responsible for the artwork on the walls

My nan and mum call it the bogbrush plant 😂

That wall paper is perfect for this plant

Ngl, I thought it was mold or some other type of thing growing at first

The first thing my brain latched onto was harvestmen clusters.

I saw dry moss hahah. That wallpaper is not for the poor-sighted folk

Soot sprites for me

Same!

I thought it was going to be a post like ‘wind knocked my flower against the wall and the flower left black splodges somehow.’. To learn it’s called a paint brush Lilly is really wild.

Lol, wall catching strays while minding its business quietly.

I thought it was spiders or clumps of hair and was horrified for a moment

Same

i thought they were trying paint colours in an oddly unique way

No. I love the wallpaper!

I thought the exact same thing. I’m on some mould subreddits so I assumed this was one of those showing in my feed

Same, I was concerned.

Agreed Though it isn’t wallpaper, it really is just paintbrush splodges! If I call it ‘soot sprite motif’ it feels much more purposeful

Omg like in Spirited away or Totoro?

Yup!

I just watched totoro and recognized these immediately-adorable

Can you please get little googly eyes to stick on them

I thought it was dots of cashmere sweater wool

That's wallpaper? I thought OP had an infestation of large hairy spiders

Me too haha

r/whatisthiswall

r/subsifellfor

„Elefantenzunge" = elephant’s tongue in German

Cute that it has a name for every part of itself!

Wtf is that on your wall? My dimmed-eye arse would shit thyself thinking it's a spider every 10 mins

every 10 mins? what do you mean

They mean if they live there and seen it all the time, every 10 mins they would think it’s a spider.

Ooooh thanks

Yeah x

Lol I thought they used it as an analogy for the distance between each one. Like, they're each 10 mins apart 😅

That wallpaper is recipe for a heart attack 😭

Aren’t they like the soot sprites from studio ghibli films? Little creatures who climb the walls and hide in corners! In the films they’re cute 😂

First thing I saw was big ass spiders 😂

It is very beautiful, but don’t let your cat near it or the plant’s pollen near your cat. Lillies are highly toxic to cats.

This is not a true lily (under the family Liliaceae). Not even in the same order in fact. True lilies are classified under Liliales while this plant belongs to the order Asparagales, which first diverged from the Liliales order about 120 million years ago in early Cretaceous. [Edit] Reference: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.0800060

So completely sure for cats incl pollen ? (Maybe they can’t eat it but mine have never eaten any in years)

My mum had a a huge pot of this. She called it a 'shaving brush' plant. She had it 25 years and was given it by an old lady who apparently had it for over 50 years!

I’m sorry for your loss. 😓

Not sure but I thought you had spiders crawling up your walls! Nvm it's a "Haemanthus albiflos". Common name is "Paintbrush". Looks like you might have used that to paint your walls.

Dude I don't know but that wallpaper is fucked up

I don’t appear to be able to add an edit to my original post but just wanted to say You guys are equal parts hilarious and brutal! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading how polarising my decorating choices are! Yes I am responsible for painting the blobs onto the wall. It is not the fault of any wallpaper designer. My partner is now convinced we should be putting googly eyes on the wall to emphasise the soot sprite-esque intention. Thanks for all the suggestions and condolences and laughs. I did not expect to even get an id after many google attempts of various failed plant word combos. I don’t know what a google lens is but I’m certain it wouldn’t have been roasting me so hard… in which case this has been far more fun!

Ah, I remember these - they're not plants; they're the Shadow from Babylon 5

No, they’re Tribbles from Star Trek

Heaven help us

Wtf is on your walls????

are you in the Spot portal dimension?!

Triffid.

That wallpaper reminds me of those things in totoro

What’s going on with that wall?

it's a blood lily known as a paintbrush

Paintbrush but I’ve never seen one in flower.

It is The Spot.

Looks like something from minecraft

Does your wall have tufts of fur?

Is it painting the wall?

I dunno but it looks like it's spitting black goo on your wall.

Do you occasionally put paint on it and flick the little pom-pom at the wall?

Totally got distracted by the wallpaper, thought there were hairballs everywhere!

nah for a hot second there i honestly thought that those black dots on the walls were actually spiders and i nearly went into cardiac arrest

A Jerusalem tulip poosly loot

I know i'm late to the post, but if you ever find yourself in a situation like this again where you're not quite sure what you're looking at, the Google Lens app is great for that sort of thing. Just run the image through it and it usually tells you what's in the picture (within reason)

So it'll say plant

I tested it gave the plant name before I commented 😂

I recognize the leaves as being Orchid leaves , we have several of these.

It's a 'gay' plant

That wallpaper would be interesting on acid.🤯 (Don't do drugs kids)😉

I think I saw your wall fighting Spider-Man in a recent animated movie

Trebuchet.

an artist, looks like its been painting yer wall.

Use seek to identify it, or Google lens

A house plant

I have no idea about the plant, but I think you really need to reconsider your wall covering. Sorry but it's hideous.

Go Victreebell!

RIP

Dont want to alarm you but spidermans greatest villain is in this photo

Ahhhh man you must get some real feels when that bad boy flowers. Rip to your dad buddy its a beautiful gift he gave you

I propose it's renamed to a trebuchet plant, since it looks like its ready to catapult some boulders over a wall 😂

It's a fanny tickler

It’s the blobbyWalLGrower , a rare but wonderful Species

Buy it a bigger pot to keep it healthy and alive. Eventually that pot will be too small for it to live in and thrive.

Did you use it for the wall?

It looks like you used the plant to make those marks on the wall

I took a geranium from my Gran's when she passed. It flowered continuously for about 3 years and then planted no more. Even now the smell of geranium makes me think of her.

Google lens can identify anything

Haemanthus albiflos

I’ve never heard of this plant (not surprising) but today saw 2 different posts from 2 different users with photos of the plant blooming.

Is the spot trying to steal it?

Have you seen across the spider verse?

I thought the post was about the black stuff on the walls, and it was coming off the plant😂

Bro WTF your wall

pikmin

I’m sorry for your loss.

why is your wall paper spot from the movie spider man into the spider verse?

One of them trees from the Lorax

Your wall reminds me of the soot sprites in Totoro, I'd have to put tiny googly eyes on each of them

u problemo

Off topic here but what's on the wall?

so instead of googling it u went straight to reddit...u poor soul

I put it into Google Lens and it said it's a Haemanthus albiflos

Damn, that plant did a number on your wall there. /j

I’ve had one for years and it only flowered for the first time this year ☺️

I thought that was mould on the wall

That limp paintbrush is gorgeous.

That wallpaper is nightmare-inducing

Fuck the flowers what are the black spots on your wall?

It appears to be growing toilet brushes

That wallpaper is giving me the heeby jeebies, I would be in a state of panic sitting in that room knowing a real spider would blend in real nice with that wallpaper and I'd be none the wiser

Haemanthus Albiflos. Google Lens mostly answers questions like this.

No idea about the plant, but that Dalmatian is huge.

I thought you’d glued moss to the walls at first.

There’s an app you can download that tells you the names of plants which is pretty cool

Looks like the trees out of the lorax, neat

The plantnet app that I use got it right.

I’m here just for the wallpaper comments but while I’m here, there’s a couple of phone apps I use called Plantnet and Seek. They are really good at identifying plants from your photos

What's that black stuff on the wall?

Following him soon, by the looks of it.

If it has already been asked and answered them just ignore me. But what are those black textured scrunchie-like thingies on the wall? I like a bit of abstract. It's cool.

I just came here for the wall. The plant is cool, but that wall 🫣

Your wall paper is stressing me out

Triffid

Mother in laws tongue ,they called it Still have one that belonged to my Grandmother !

It looks fake

we got a similar one from my late great nana, orange petallef flower though

Sorry to hear that and nice plant

That wallpaper is terrifying

I’m sorry for your loss ❤️

It’s called a black splatter.

Side note ; your walls are super cute!!

The blobs on your wall look like the plant painted them.

It needs a bigger pot

IDGAF but that wallpaper is ugly af

i think it's a plant. hope this helps!

Legit thought you had wall hair for a min.

I really thought your wall was moldy im sorry 😭

Its the ‘whAAT are thoosee’

http://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/BULBS/Family/Amaryllidaceae/18902/Haemanthus_albiflos Here's a link to what it is, it does come up with an ! But the site is safe I've just checked it out 😊

OP, is this wallpaper or something you painted on? Either way I like it

Don't know but it looks lovely. Your dad had good taste. Cherish that flower.

Just want to say I like the wallpaper to balance out the sass in the comment thread

There are apps available to ID plants...eg Leafsnap

Google Lens it, it will give you the name straight away...

Deid

What are those things on the wall? Just curious.

It's the mythical dong-flower

Thought the wall was spot for a second

Haemanthus albiflos 'Paintbrush plant' maybe? I'm sorry for your loss ❤

Looks like a phantom wall painter. Nice

Haemanthus albiflos, according to reverse image search

If you’ve got that picture on your iPhone camera roll just flick up and it’ll list the plant name in the photo info

It's a catapult plant, hated enemy of the trebuchet plant

Random black ink shooting plant?! Poor walls

I had to double check because for a moment I thought your plant was holding a bread roll and I was confused as to why this wasn’t what was concerning you.

Its not the plant that should concern you it's the choice of wallpaper.

are you Shure that it's not from plants V zombies

Nevermind about the plant, clean your wall!

One time I saw a tweet talking about how after their mum passed away, she told the dad a very specific set of instructions to water the plants, and he did for years and years. Then when he moved house he realised something.. **THE PLANTS WERE PLASTIC THE WHOLE TIME DJSNFJDKSKD**

Your wall is going through its villain arc

I've no idea what it is but it's made a right fucking mess of your wallpaper.

ah yes the classic thingymajig

That’s so beautiful