Help me identify a flower.

Hello deenad I think it might be a member of the Crinum Lily family called a Crinum x Powellii - Alba. It prefers temperate, subtropical, tropical, grassland, and arid areas. It will survive into Zone 6. It's a hybred from the crinum bulbispermum crossed with crinum mooler It's also an extremely hardy plant except in cold or wet locations. The plant produces up to 10 large bell shaped, scented flowers on a solid stem. It has large, long leaves that tend to look messy after the plant flowers. Does that sound like what you have?

I don't know the exact name of this flower but I am sure this is one variety of lily flower. It's beautiful and it looks quite different from the ordinary. Lily flowers have various varieties and colors. There are common and rare ones which are very expensive. I don't know if you variety stands for long or like the ordinary ones that easily fades when cut from the stem. I love the stargazer variety because they can last for weeks and they give out sweet odor during the night.

It is certainly a 'lily' - as evidenced by the six petals (actually three petals and three sepals) and the recurved form of the stamens. Its stamens are so long and so arranged that I wonder if it is one of those flowers which has adapted to being pollinated by humming birds (if so, it would have to be native American). It does look very like a Crinum I have but, as the flowers are arranged up the stem, I am doubtful that it's a Crinum. It might help with identification if we knew the shape and form of the leaves and whether it grows from a bulb or a corm (bulbs have layers, like an onion; corms are solid, fleshy lumps, sometimes irregular). The form of the seed pods would also help.