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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Catwheazle on July 02, 2017, 04:12:00 PM

Title: Lilium ?
Post by: Catwheazle on July 02, 2017, 04:12:00 PM

Hello, this plant (bulb) I had bought as "Lilium bulbiferum". It is certainly not :-(
What might be from it, and / or which could fit these leaves?
The plant is currently about 30 cm high and the bulb had A diameter of about 5 cm. She was, as far as I can remember, not scaly.
thx
Bernd

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Title: Re: Lilium ?
Post by: Catwheazle on July 02, 2017, 05:20:05 PM

Is it lilium at all?

Title: Re: Lilium ?
Post by: Graham Catlow on July 02, 2017, 07:31:47 PM

'Bletilla' perhaps?   :-\

Title: Re: Lilium ?
Post by: Catwheazle on July 02, 2017, 07:34:32 PM

Definitively no. I have lot of bletillas. Bulb of this plant is like an onion.

Title: Re: Lilium ?
Post by: Catwheazle on July 05, 2017, 12:57:12 PM

@Graham .....sorry, perhaps your assumtion is correct !

Perhaps really a bletilla. Compared to my other bletillas (formosana, striata, ochracea, sinensis) the leaves are at least 2 - 3 times wider, also the plant is bigger. To systematics I unfortunately found many different information, but perhaps it could be a foliosa? Can not find a description in the net :-(
Greetings
Bernd