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Home > All flower categories > Flowers by Favourite Variety > Send Just Lilies The name lily when projected into the etherial understand and into peoples name mean Purity, Life , long life and white pure. The botanic name Lilium is the Latin form and is a Linnaean name, The English word lily is derived from a Proto-Indo-European language root, perhaps meaning white. Lilies are commonly adapted to woodland habitats, or sometimes grassland habitats. The plants of the genus Lilium are the true lily plants, comprising a genus of about 100 species in the lily family, Liliaceae. They are important as showy and large flowered garden plants, and in literature. Lilies are native to the northern temperate regions. Their range in the Old World extends across much of Europe, the north Mediterranean, across most of Asia to Japan, south to the Nilgiri mountains in India, and south to the Philippines. In the New World they extend from southern Canada and into the United States. 
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