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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: jes on July 16, 2009, 04:11:00 PM

Title: help with lilium
Post by: jes on July 16, 2009, 04:11:00 PM

I was hoping that someone may be able to help me with the name of this lilium

smile from jes / denmark

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: Hristo on July 17, 2009, 05:41:05 AM

Hi Jes,
Your lilium looks somewhat like Lilium tigrinum.

http://www.garten.cz/images_data/3161-lilium-tigrinum.jpg

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: Paul T on July 17, 2009, 01:05:12 PM

Jes,

I am assuming that these are two different liliums?  The first looks orange, and the second looks pink, so I don't think one would be fading to the other?  The first one looks like Lilium lancifolium (L. tigrinum), and while the second one has the same form, the colour is wrong for that.  Beautiful though. 8)

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: gote on July 17, 2009, 01:12:37 PM

I agree it look like Lilium tigrinum = L lancifolium.
However, cannot see any bulbils and tigrinum is rarely hairy in that way.
It could be Lilium lechtlinii v maximoviczii which I prefer to call L maximoviczii.
It could also be an asiatic hybrid in which case I cannot give a name at all.
We really need to see more of the whole plant.
I post an old scanned picture of tigrinum. I cannot fine any of maximowiczii.
Göte

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: ichristie on July 17, 2009, 06:46:01 PM

Hi Jes, I think you might have Lilium davidii which is a red/orange flower plus the pink one I think is Lilium cernuum this is a variable colour and the flowers look like correct but need picture of the stems please cheers Ian the Christie kind.

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: gote on July 18, 2009, 08:23:15 AM

Quote from: ichristie on July 17, 2009, 06:46:01 PM

Hi Jes, I think you might have Lilium davidii which is a red/orange flower plus the pink one I think is Lilium cernuum this is a variable colour and the flowers look like correct but need picture of the stems please cheers Ian the Christie kind.

I agree that a form of davidii is also likely with the tuft of hairs and all. As to the second being cernuum I doubt it. The colour may be right but the leaves seem too broad and the flowers too open. Jes take a look at my posting under Lilium 2009 July 14th and say what you think.
Göte   

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: Paul T on July 18, 2009, 09:39:04 AM

Isn't there a brown stem bulbil on the left hand leaf visible in the pic?  There's something round and brown at the base of that leaf anyway?  Not black, like they usually are, but I figured it may just have been immature?

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: jes on July 18, 2009, 04:26:50 PM

Hi

I try to take som new foto - sec.

;-) jes

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: Lori S. on July 19, 2009, 05:36:08 AM

Here's Lilium leichtlinii var maximowiczii, for comparison, but I'd but my money on both of the lilies in question being L. lancifolium or hybrids thereof ('Pink Tiger', for example).

Title: Re: help with lilium
Post by: gote on July 20, 2009, 11:04:31 AM

Quote from: Paul T on July 18, 2009, 09:39:04 AM

Isn't there a brown stem bulbil on the left hand leaf visible in the pic?  There's something round and brown at the base of that leaf anyway?  Not black, like they usually are, but I figured it may just have been immature?

They indeed start as whitish and darken but at the time of flowring they usually are black.
Göte