A Lilium in Qingdao

[yijiawang]

This weekend I went to Qingdao, Qingdao is belong to Shandong province and near sea, a special Lilium tsingtauense grow there.
the shape like Paris with Lily flower

[Maggi Young]

Glad to see this Lily in its home. Thank you!

[Hans J]

Hi Yijiawang ,

Thank you for this nice pictures !
Did you see on you travels also Epimedium ?

Best wishes from Germany
Hans

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great sight Yijiawang ! Thanks for showing us !

[kalle-k.dk]

For two years ago I got this Lily from China. I got it as L. bakerianum and this is wrong, but is there any of you the can tell me the correctly name. The leaves are like L. henryi.

Karl Kristensen
Denmark
www.kalle-k.dk

[Susan Band]

Hi, I also have this lovely lily. It is  Lilium lijinganense

[gote]

I agree. lijiangense. described as late as 1984 or thereabouts.
My specimen has a black line in the middle of the tepal (only visible from below.)
The drooping pedicels are also very typical.
It seems easy from seed and hardy even in mid-Sweden.
Göte 

[kalle-k.dk]

Susan and Göte thank you for help with named of my lily. I got two more lily in my greenhouse. I have made them both from seeds. There was a name with the seeds, but I can see it is wrong. That one I got as L. concolor grow like L. davidii but the stem is not black. The other one I got as L. hansonii and it’s not look like that. The flowers of L. hansonii come in the top of the stem and it hanging, not so much as the flowers on my "L. conolor" and it has no stalk.

Karl Kristensen,
Denmark
www.kalle-k.dk

[Magnar]

I got this Lily as Nomocharis forrestii, which is clearly wrong. Can anyone help me with a name, please.

Thanks

Magnar

[arisaema]

There are several possibilities, could you take a picture of the leaves? It's most likely either L. duchartrei or L. lankongense, the former has a clusters of white hair in the leaf axils.

[Magnar]

Here is a pic of the leaves

[arisaema]

Looks like L. lankongense, but check for lack of hairs in the leaf axils to rule out L. duchartrei.

[gote]

Hello Karl,
The first one does indeed look like davidii - perhaps var wilmottie.
The second one is obviously not even related to hansonii. I assume that it has only one flower in which case it probably also is davidii. Davidii is a variable species and I have once had a couple with green stems.
Can it be amabile?? Amabile has rather rounded leaf tips and leaf colour is somewhat darker whereas davidii leaf tips are pointed.
Does it smell anything?
It would be helpful with more pictures showing the whole plant and also showing the bracts and other parts of the inflorescense.
Göte

[gote]

I agree. Probably lankongense.
Today the view seems to be to lump lankongense and duchartreii since there are intermediate forms. I am not sure that I buy that.
The easy way is that lankongense is pink - just as in the pic.
Duchartreii is whiter - maroon spotted. Typically not pink at all.
There is a difference in the infloresence too. Duchartreii umbel - lankongense raceme. Of course this does not help if there is only one flower but I think I see a raceme.
At least one of them is usually stoloniferous.I.e. the stem does not come up where the bulb is but a couple of decimetres to the side but this does not always happen but seems to depend upon age of bulb.
Göte

[Magnar]

Thanks a lot. I go for L. lankongense then. Can not see any white hairs in the leaf axils.