Calla Lily

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The popular garden and horticultural specimen Calla Lily, also called the Arum Lily, is neither a lily nor a calla nor an arum. Nor is it a true flower; rather, what we know as “Calla Lillies” are a spathes that surrounds an inflorescense of tiny flowers from plants in the genus Zantedeschia, which originated in southern Africa.