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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Gene Mirro on July 12, 2013, 09:18:11 PM

Title: Lilium michiganense?
Post by: Gene Mirro on July 12, 2013, 09:18:11 PM

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The seeds came in a packet of L. canadense.  But these look like michiganense to me, or maybe a hybrid.  The plants are seven feet tall.  Any ideas?

Title: Re: Lilium michiganense?
Post by: Gene Mirro on July 12, 2013, 09:20:23 PM

Does this look like michiganense to you?  The plant is 3 feet tall.

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Title: Re: Lilium michiganense?
Post by: Afloden on July 16, 2013, 11:46:41 AM

At seven feet tall and that flower shape, it looks more like L. superbum than it does michiganense. I have the latter, but it never sets seed. Michiganense usually tops out at about 3 feet and has more leopard-like spots on flowers where the tepals fully recurve.

 Aaron

Title: Re: Lilium michiganense?
Post by: Gene Mirro on July 23, 2013, 02:00:43 AM

Aaron, I grew several seedlings of L. michiganense for many years in Portland, Oregon.  I hand-pollinated it, but it would not set seed.  At my new place in SW Washington, it sets seed like crazy.  The main difference is that the temperature is a few degrees cooler here.  Also, my new place has lots of pollinating insects and hummingbirds.  But why would that matter if I was hand-pollinating?