Pancratium maritimum - Sea daffodil -Το κρινάκι της θάλασσας!!!

The Sea Daffodil is a stunning flower and is one of the most beautiful of the wild Cretan flowers which appears on beaches in late summer and can be found on a few of the Southwest beaches of Rethymno...

A little further from Plakias, you can come in front of Plakiassuites at the Plakias Suites Beachand there are many hundreds of flowering Pancratium plants. Really a beautiful sight!!!

 

The pancratium maritimum, many times, has been subject 
for study forbotanists and archaeologists.

The Pancratium features in lists of documented prehistoric plants of the Mediterranean and appears in wall paintings in Knossos. It has medicinal uses described by Dioscorides and Theophrastos. (1896). 

It is sadly becoming endangered - one of the victims of beach tourism and construction, pollution and galloping erosion due to rising temperatures and sea level… not to mention enthusiasts who carry them off to plant in their gardens and promptly kill them by planting in rich soil....