One of my co-workers reported having a stand of them in his yard this year that he had not planted and had never seen before. Wish some would wander into my garden. Magic lilies are not true lilies. Their botanic name is Lycoris squamigera. Lycoris do produce foliage, but not when the flower blooms.
Strappy leaves emerge in late fall and persist through much of the winter.
The leaves collect all the sunshine they need under deciduous trees. By spring, the foliage has disappeared and most gardeners forget about lycoris until late July or August when they are once again surprised. Readers have asked when the plants can be moved, when and how to plant to new bulbs and why they wander in the garden. You can dig up the bulbs now, divide and move them. But you risk having fewer blooms next year because the plants don't like being disturbed.