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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Gerard Oud on March 22, 2007, 04:55:18 PM

Title: New Lilium variety
Post by: Gerard Oud on March 22, 2007, 04:55:18 PM

During the winter i work for a company called "De Jong Lelies". They do grow liliums,wholesale all over the world and breeding. From this last part there was some nice news, we found a very good looking and stabile form of a double aziatic lilium.
Tell me what you think of it !
regards,
gerard

Title: Re: New Lilium variety
Post by: mark smyth on March 22, 2007, 06:07:31 PM

Looks OK to me

Title: Re: New Lilium variety
Post by: annew on March 22, 2007, 06:22:08 PM

Not bad for a double, it still has a stigma at least. It's nice the way the petaloid stamens stand up in the middle with the true petals reflexed.

Title: Re: New Lilium variety
Post by: Maggi Young on March 22, 2007, 08:11:59 PM

I have often said before that I prefer single flowers to doubles  (though I am getting converted when it comes to double hepaticas!) but I must say that this is a striking flower form. As Anne says," it still has a stigma at least. It's nice the way the petaloid stamens stand up in the middle with the true petals reflexed."
It has good foliage, too.
The colour is striking and I would think that this flower has a great future, especially in the cut-flower market.

Title: Re: New Lilium variety
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 22, 2007, 09:18:16 PM

Mmmmmm....., not TOO bad, all things considered.